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Test 5 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

Your brother insists "every -ly word is an adverb, end of." What sentence proves him wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, ly word, sentence · What happens: insist, be, prove · To what, where: adverb, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 of lesson 4 «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» 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 brother insists "every -ly word is an adverb, end of."

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insists	nsubj
3	insists	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 adverb	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 word	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 every	punct
7	ly	ly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 word	amod
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adverb	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 adverb	cop
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adverb	det
11	adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insists	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adverb	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 end	case
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 insists	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 insists	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	every ly word	a adverb and end					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 sentence proves him wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 proves	obj
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proves	nsubj
3	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proves	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proves	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	sentence	brother				wrong property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They left early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	They					early property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That was a lovely day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 day	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a lovely day					tree rules

Option 3

He spoke softly

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	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	He					softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She ran quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	She					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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