Test 11 · British and American words
Your American cousin says "I'm out of gas". You are in the car. What has run out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: American cousin, You · What happens: say, be, run out · To what, where: gas, car · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 21 «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Your American cousin says "I'm out of gas".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cousin | amod |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gas | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 gas | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gas | cop |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 gas | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gas | case |
| 10 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 gas | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your American cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Your American cousin = cousin | gas | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: You are in the car.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 car | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 car | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 car | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 car | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | the car | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What has run out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 run | compound:prt |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | present · perfect | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Fizzy drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fizzy | fizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drink | amod |
| 2 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Cooking gas at home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cooking | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cooking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | gerund | gas | home | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gas=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Petrol, the fuel for the car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fuel | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fuel | det |
| 4 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Petrol | appos |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 car | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fuel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Air in the tyres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 tyres | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tyres | det |
| 4 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Air | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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