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Test 2 · Sign language

Your cousin thinks there's "one world sign language". What would happen if she used BSL in New York?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, sign language, language · What happens: think, be, happen, use · To what, where: BSL, New York · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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 cousin thinks there's "one world sign language".

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 thinks	nsubj
3	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thinks	ccomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 language	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sign	nummod
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sign	compound
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 language	compound
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 's	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 language	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Your cousin						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	present	sign language			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 would happen if she used BSL in New York?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 used	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	BSL	BSL	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 used	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 York	case
9	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 York	flat
10	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 BSL	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	past	language	BSL		New York			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bsl=Patient

The options

Option 1

Nobody uses signs in New York

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 York	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 York	flat
6	York	York	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 signs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Nobody	signs		New York			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Her signs would turn into ASL

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 signs	nmod:poss
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 ASL	case
6	ASL	ASL	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	Her signs					into ASL result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into asl=Result
2	sign		Her = she						nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many ASL signers wouldn't understand her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signers	amod
2	ASL	asl	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 signers	amod
3	signers	signer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 understand	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	would	Many ASL signers	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 4

Everyone would understand her perfectly, since signs are the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understand	obj
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 understand	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 same	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 same	mark
8	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 same	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 same	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 understand	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Everyone	her = she				perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	is	present	signs					same property	tree rules

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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