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Test 7 · ★★★ · Grammar puzzles, part two

Your nan from Glasgow says "Ah'm fasting the day, hen." ("The day" means today; "hen" means dear.) What job is "fasting" doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, day, hen, job · What happens: say, fast, mean, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 nan from Glasgow says "Ah'm fasting the day, hen."

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 nan	nmod:poss
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nan	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct
7	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 fasting	discourse
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fasting	aux
9	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fasting	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hen	punct
13	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fasting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your nan from Glasgow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fast in a quote	present · progressive					day		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: ("The day" means today; "hen" means dear.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 means	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hen	punct
10	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 means	nsubj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hen	punct
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 means	conj
13	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the day				today		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	hen					dear property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What job is "fasting" doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fasting	obj
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fasting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fasting	aux
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fasting	punct
5	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 doing	advcl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fasting	punct
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fast in a quote	present · progressive	job						tree rules
2	do	gerund							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

An adverb: telling how fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 adverb	det
2	adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 telling	punct
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 adverb	acl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 telling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	a adverb not said here					fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A verb: going without food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 verb	det
2	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 verb	punct
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 verb	acl
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	a verb not said here					without food	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

An adjective: describing speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 adjective	det
2	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 describing	punct
4	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 adjective	acl
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	gerund	a adjective not said here	speed					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent speed=Theme

Option 4

A noun: a quick race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 noun	det
2	noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 race	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
5	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 race	amod
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noun	appos

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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