Test 2 · ★ · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

Your mate goes "there's ham in a hamburger, obviously, it's in the name." What's the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, ham, truth · What happens: go, be · To what, where: hamburger, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 37 «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» 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 mate goes "there's ham in a hamburger, obviously, it's in the name."

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	parataxis
7	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hamburger	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hamburger	det
10	hamburger	hamburger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 obviously	punct
12	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	6 's	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 name	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 name	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 name	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 name	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 name	det
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 name	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present	ham	a hamburger; there	obviously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hamburger=Location
3	is in a quote	present	ham	the name		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: What's the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The name comes from Hamburg; the "ham" bit is not about meat

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 Hamburg	case
5	Hamburg	Hamburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 meat	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bit	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ham	punct
9	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	compound
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 ham	punct
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meat	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 meat	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 meat	advmod
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 meat	case
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the name			Hamburg			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hamburg=Initial_Location
2	not is	present	the ham bit					about meat	tree rules

Option 2

He's right, the very first hamburgers were made from sliced ham

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	_	10 made	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hamburgers	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 first	advmod
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 hamburgers	amod
8	hamburgers	hamburger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 ham	case
12	sliced	slice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ham	amod
13	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	make	past · passive		the first hamburgers	sliced ham		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from ham=Material
3	slice	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It comes from "hammer", because the meat is flattened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 hammer	case
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hammer	punct
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hammer	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flattened	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 flattened	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 meat	det
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flattened	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 flattened	aux:pass
12	flattened	flatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 comes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			hammer			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hammer=Initial_Location
2	flatten	present · passive		the meat					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

It comes from Hamlet, who loved burgers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Hamlet	case
4	Hamlet	Hamlet	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loved	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 loved	nsubj
7	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Hamlet	acl:relcl
8	burgers	burger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	It			Hamlet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hamlet=Initial_Location
2	love	past	Hamlet	burgers					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer burger=Stimulus

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