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Test 3 · ★★★ · Grammar puzzles, part two

Your Scouse cousin says "made an anagram of 'night', la, it's 'thing', dead easy." ("La" means mate, "dead" means very.) Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scouse cousin, cousin, night, La · What happens: say, make, be, anagram, mean · To what, where: anagram, thing, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: Your Scouse cousin says "made an anagram of 'night', la, it's 'thing', dead easy."

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	Scouse	scouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	compound
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 anagram	det
8	anagram	anagram	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 night	case
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 night	punct
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anagram	nmod
12	',	',	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
13	la	la	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thing	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
19	',	',	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 easy	amod
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your Scouse cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past		a anagram of night					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset anagram=Beneficiary la=Product
3	is a in a quote	present	cousin	thing					tree rules
4	anagram in a quote		night						nom anagram «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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: ("La" means mate, "dead" means very.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 La	punct
3	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 La	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	csubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	11 means	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	La	mate					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic
2	mean	present	La not said here						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
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	la					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, "thing" has one letter too many

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 letter	nummod
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 letter	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	thing	one letter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient

Option 2

No, the letters must stay in their places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letters	det
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 places	nmod:poss
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	must	the letters			letters's places			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, same five letters in a new order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 same	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 letters	amod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 letters	nummod
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 order	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 order	amod
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letters	nmod

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

Option 4

No, anagrams must keep the first letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	anagrams	anagram	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 letter	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 letter	amod
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	anagrams	the first letter					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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