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Test 8 · ★★★ · Grammar puzzles, part two

Kai changes "I will see you tomorrow" into "I will see you yesterday". What did he forget?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kai, I · What happens: change, see, forget · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: Kai changes "I will see you tomorrow" into "I will see you yesterday".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 changes	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl:unmarked
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
10	into	into	SCONJ	_	14 see	mark
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj
16	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obl:unmarked
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Kai						tree rules
2	see in a quote	future	I	you			tomorrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	see in a quote	future	I	you			yesterday		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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 did he forget?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 forget	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · do-support	Kai						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing, his sentence makes perfect sense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 makes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sentence	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sentence	nmod:poss
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sense	amod
7	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing	perfect sense					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product
2	sentence		his = he						nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

To change "tomorrow" into "today"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 change	mark
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tomorrow	punct
4	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl:unmarked
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tomorrow	punct
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 today	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 today	punct
8	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 today	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive					today; tomorrow		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To add a question mark at the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 add	mark
2	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mark	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mark	compound
5	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	to-infinitive		a question mark			at the end		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient

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

To change the verb into the past as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 change	mark
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 verb	det
4	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 past	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 past	det
7	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obl
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	2 change	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive		the verb				into the past result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent verb=Patient into past=Result

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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