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Test 6 · ★★ · Sarcasm and tone of voice

Ruby asks "where's the pony then?" after Mum said "and a pony too". What should Ruby understand?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, Mum · What happens: ask, be, say, understand · To what, where: pony · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Sarcasm and tone of voice» 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: Ruby asks "where's the pony then?" after Mum said "and a pony too".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 where	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 pony	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pony	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pony	det
7	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	ccomp
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 pony	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pony	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pony	punct
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 said	mark
12	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	advcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pony	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pony	det
17	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	conj
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 pony	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 pony	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Ruby						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present		the pony			then		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 Ruby understand?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 understand	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 understand	aux
3	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 understand	nsubj
4	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 understand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	should	Ruby						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It was a sarcastic way of saying no

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 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 way	acl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a sarcastic way					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a sarcastic way not said here	no					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Mum ordered a pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pony	det
4	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Mum		a pony				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pony=Theme

Option 3

The pony is outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pony	det
2	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the pony					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Mum will buy the pony later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 buy	aux
3	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pony	det
5	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buy	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 buy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	future	Mum	the pony				late property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pony=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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