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Test 2 · ★★★ · Grammar puzzles, part two

Freya writes "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" backwards, ignoring spaces. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freya, it, I · What happens: write, be, see, ignore, happen · To what, where: car, cat, spaces · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Grammar puzzles, part two» 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: Freya writes "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" backwards, ignoring spaces.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 writes	nsubj
2	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 car	punct
4	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 car	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 car	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 writes	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cat	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	conj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cat	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 car	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 car	punct
15	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 writes	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ignoring	punct
17	ignoring	ignore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 writes	conj
18	spaces	space	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ignoring	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 writes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	Freya					backwards property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	it	a car or a cat					tree rules
3	see in a quote	past	I	a cat not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus
4	ignore	gerund	Freya not said here	spaces					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=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 happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

She gets the same letters in the same order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 letters	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 letters	amod
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gets	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 order	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 order	amod
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	She	the same letters		the same order			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus

Option 2

She gets a totally different sentence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sentence	det
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 different	advmod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sentence	amod
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	She	a different sentence					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She gets "I saw a cat" and nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nothing	cc
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 gets	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	see in a quote	past	I	a cat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus

Option 4

The letters run out halfway through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letters	det
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 run	compound:prt
5	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
6	through	through	ADV	_	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	present	the letters					halfway, through property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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