Test 1 · Sign language
Your mate goes "sign language is just mime, innit, anyone gets it." What's true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, sign language, anyone · What happens: go, be, get · To what, where: mime, language · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 32 «Sign language» 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 "sign language is just mime, innit, anyone gets it."
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 | _ | 9 mime | punct |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 language | compound |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mime | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mime | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 mime | advmod |
| 9 | mime | mime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 9 mime | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gets | punct |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 gets | nsubj |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gets | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 gets | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | 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 a in a quote | present | sign language | mime | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | anyone | language | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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
It's only for counting
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 counting | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 counting | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 counting | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 counting | mark |
| 5 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present · progressive | It | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
It's English with hands
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 | 3 English | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 English | cop |
| 3 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 English | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | with hands; english property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's a full language with grammar you have to learn
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 language | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 language | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 language | amod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grammar | case |
| 7 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 language | nmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 language | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 learn | mark |
| 11 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a full language | with grammar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
He's right, it's only mime that anyone can follow without lessons
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 mime | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mime | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mime | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 mime | advmod |
| 8 | mime | mime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 right | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 follow | mark |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 follow | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 follow | aux |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 mime | acl |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 lessons | case |
| 14 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 follow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | mime | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | can | anyone | mime not said here | without lessons | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mime=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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