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Test 1 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

Your mate goes "phrasal verbs are easy, any learner can guess 'em, bruv." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, phrasal verbs, learner · What happens: go, be, guess · To what, where: 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» 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 mate goes "phrasal verbs are easy, any learner can guess 'em, bruv."

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	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct
5	phrasal	phrasal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 verbs	amod
6	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 easy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 easy	cop
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 guess	punct
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 learner	det
11	learner	learner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guess	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 guess	aux
13	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easy	parataxis
14	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 guess	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guess	vocative
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	phrasal verbs					easy property	tree rules
3	guess in a quote	can	any learner	'em = they				bruv vocative	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Learners never use them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Learners	learner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 use	advmod
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	present	Learners	them = they					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They're among the hardest bits of English for learners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bits	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bits	cop
3	among	among	ADP	_	6 bits	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bits	det
5	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 bits	amod
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 English	case
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bits	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 learners	case
10	learners	learner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bits	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					among the hardest bits; of English; for learners	tree rules

Option 3

They only exist in America

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 exist	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 exist	advmod
3	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 America	case
5	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 exist	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	They			America			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in america=Location

Option 4

He's right, you can always guess them from the main verb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	_	8 guess	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 guess	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 guess	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 guess	advmod
8	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 guess	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 verb	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 verb	det
12	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 verb	amod
13	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	guess	can	you	them = they		the main verb		always property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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