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Test 7 · British and American words

Kai's mate from Alabama says "y'all want biscuits with gravy?" ("Y'all" means you all.) What will arrive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, y'all · What happens: say, want, mean, arrive · To what, where: biscuits, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Kai's mate from Alabama says "y'all want biscuits with gravy?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Alabama	case
5	Alabama	Alabama	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
8	y'all	y'all	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
10	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 want	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 gravy	case
12	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Kai's mate from Alabama						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	y'all	biscuits				with gravy	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot biscuit=Theme

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: ("Y'all" means you all.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Y'all	punct
3	Y'all	Y'all	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Y'all	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 means	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 you	nmod:unmarked
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Y'all	you					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

Sentence 3: What will arrive?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 arrive	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 arrive	aux
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 arrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	future							tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Chocolate cookies with gravy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cookies	compound
2	cookies	cookie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 gravy	case
4	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cookies	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Crisps with gravy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 gravy	case
3	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crisps	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Soft bread rolls with gravy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	nsubj
3	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 gravy	case
5	gravy	gravy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	Soft bread					with gravy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gravy=Theme

Option 4

Crackers with jam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 jam	case
3	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crackers	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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