Test 8 · ★ · Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds

Your grandad from Liverpool says "burglar must come from burgle, lad, verbs come first." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandad, burglar, verbs · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: burgle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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 grandad from Liverpool says "burglar must come from burgle, lad, verbs come first."

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 grandad	nmod:poss
2	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Liverpool	case
4	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grandad	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
7	burglar	burglar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 burgle	case
11	burgle	burgle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lad	punct
13	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burgle	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	conj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 come	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your grandad from Liverpool			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	must	burglar	burgle and lad		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from burgle=Initial_Location
3	come in a quote	present	verbs		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

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

"Burglar" came first and "burgle" was made from it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Burglar	punct
2	Burglar	burglar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Burglar	punct
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 made	cc
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 burgle	punct
8	burgle	burgle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj:pass
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 burgle	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Burglar					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · passive		burgle		Burglar			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from it=Material

Option 2

"Burgle" comes from "burger", not "burglar"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Burgle	punct
2	Burgle	Burgle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Burgle	punct
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 burger	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 burger	punct
7	burger	burger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 burger	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 burglar	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 burglar	advmod
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 burglar	punct
12	burglar	burglar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burger	appos
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 burglar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Burgle			burger			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from burger=Initial_Location

Option 3

He's right, verbs always come before the nouns made from them

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	_	7 come	punct
5	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 nouns	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nouns	det
10	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 nouns	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	come	present	verbs		the nouns	always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before noun=Location
3	make	participle		the nouns not said here		from verbs = verb	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from they=Material

Option 4

Both words appeared on the very same day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	both words				day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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