Test 5 · British and American words
You're in Boston and your mate texts "meet u ground floor lol". What should you say to an American to find it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, u · What happens: be, meet, floor, say, find · To what, where: Boston, floor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: You're in Boston and your mate texts "meet u ground floor lol".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Boston | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Boston | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Boston | case |
| 4 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 texts | cc |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 texts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 texts | compound |
| 8 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Boston | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 meet | punct |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Boston | parataxis |
| 11 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 floor | nsubj |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 floor | compound |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obj |
| 14 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 10 meet | discourse |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 meet | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Boston | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | Boston and your mate texts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | present | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | floor in a quote | u | 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 should you say to an American to find it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 American | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 American | det |
| 7 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 American | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | should | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | you not said here | floor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The first floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 floor | amod |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The second floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 floor | amod |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The basement
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 basement | det |
| 2 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The top floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 floor | amod |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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