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Test 2 · British and American words

Gran reckons "fall" is "lazy new American talk". What's the wise reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, fall, wise reply · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: lazy new American talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Gran reckons "fall" is "lazy new American talk".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
4	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 talk	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 talk	cop
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Gran						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	fall	lazy new American talk					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: What's the wise reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's a spelling mistake for "fell"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mistake	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mistake	compound
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 fell	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mistake	advcl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a spelling mistake					tree rules
2	fall in a quote	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

She's right, it began in the 1990s on American telly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 1990s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 1990s	det
9	1990s	1990s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 began	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 telly	case
11	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 telly	amod
12	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	begin	past	it			the 1990s		on American telly	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

It's slang that American films spread around the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slang	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slang	cop
3	slang	slang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spread	obj
5	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 films	amod
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spread	nsubj
7	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slang	acl:relcl
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	slang					tree rules
2	spread	present	American films	slang		the world			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme around world=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

"Fall" is an old English word that America kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fall	punct
2	Fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 word	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fall	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 word	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 word	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
7	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 kept	obj
10	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 kept	nsubj
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fall	a old English word					tree rules
2	keep	past	America	a old English word					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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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