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Test 4 · Sign language

Your grandad shouts at a Deaf neighbour to be heard. What's better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: shout, hear, be · To what, where: Deaf neighbour

This is test 4 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 grandad shouts at a Deaf neighbour to be heard.

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 grandad	nmod:poss
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	nsubj
3	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 neighbour	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
6	Deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neighbour	amod
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouts	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 heard	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shouts	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Your grandad			a Deaf neighbour			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	to-infinitive · passive	Your grandad not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.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 better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Turn away and talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 talk	cc
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	talk	infinitive	you not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Write very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 fast	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Write	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Shout even louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 louder	advmod
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shout	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Face her, speak clearly, and don't shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Face	face	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Face	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
4	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Face	conj
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shout	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shout	cc
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 shout	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 shout	advmod
10	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Destination
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here					clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not shout speech: express	infinitive · do-support	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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