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Test 5 · Verbs: doing words and being words

Your cousin says "you can't google something, Google's a company, innit." What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, you, Google, best reply · What happens: say, not google, be, innit · To what, where: something, company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 3 «Verbs: doing words and being 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: Your cousin says "you can't google something, Google's a company, innit."

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 google	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 google	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 google	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 google	advmod
8	google	google	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 google	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 company	punct
11	Google	Google	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 company	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 company	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 company	det
14	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 something	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 google	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 google	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 google	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not google in a quote	can	you	something					tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	Google	a company					tree rules
4	innit in a quote	infinitive	you not said here						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 best 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	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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 best reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He's right, brand names can never be used as verbs in English

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	_	10 used	punct
5	brand	brand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 names	amod
6	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	nsubj:pass
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 used	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 used	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	aux:pass
10	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 verbs	case
12	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 used	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 English	case
14	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 verbs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not use	can · passive		brand names				as verbs in English	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as verb=Attribute

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

Brand names often become verbs, like google and hoover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brand	brand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	compound
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 google	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 google	case
8	google	Google	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 verbs	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hoover	cc
10	hoover	hoover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 verbs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Brand names	verbs and google and hoover				often property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Only in America is googling allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 America	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 America	case
3	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 googling	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 googling	aux
5	googling	google	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 googling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	google	present · progressive	America						tree rules
2	allow	participle	America not said here						vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 4

To google means to buy a phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 google	mark
2	google	google	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	csubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 buy	mark
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 phone	det
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	google	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive		a phone					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=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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