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Test 7 · Sign language

Your American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doing it wrong with two. Who's right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: American cousin, you · What happens: fingerspell, say, do, be · To what, where: cousin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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 American cousin fingerspells with one hand and says you're doing it wrong with two.

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	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fingerspells	nsubj
4	fingerspells	fingerspell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hand	nummod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fingerspells	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fingerspells	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 doing	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 says	ccomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 doing	obj
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doing	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 two	case
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 doing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fingerspells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fingerspell	present	Your American cousin					with one hand	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Your American cousin not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	present · progressive	you	cousin				with two	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: Who's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only your cousin, because one hand is the world rule

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cousin	advmod
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rule	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cousin	punct
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 hand	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hand	nummod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rule	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rule	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rule	compound
11	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	your cousin because one hand	the world rule					tree rules

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

Both: ASL uses one hand and BSL uses two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ASL	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	ASL	asl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	nsubj
4	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hand	nummod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uses	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 uses	cc
8	BSL	BSL	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 uses	nsubj
9	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 uses	conj
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	both ASL	one hand					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	use	present	BSL	two					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient

Option 3

Neither, you must use your feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 use	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
5	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	must	you	your feet				neither property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

Option 4

Only you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 you	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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