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Test 6 · Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions

A boomer coach shouts "you guys did rad today, played real good!" ("Rad" means great.) In school writing, how would you put his praise?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boomer coach, you, Rad · What happens: shout, do, play, mean, put, praise · To what, where: real good, praise, school writing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: A boomer coach shouts "you guys did rad today, played real good!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coach	det
2	boomer	boomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coach	compound
3	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	nsubj
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
7	guys	guy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 you	nmod:unmarked
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouts	ccomp
9	rad	rad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 did	xcomp
10	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct
12	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouts	parataxis
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 good	amod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 played	obj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 shouts	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a boomer coach						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	past	you				today	rad property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play in a quote	past		real good					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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: ("Rad" means great.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Rad	punct
3	Rad	rad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Rad	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Rad					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: In school writing, how would you put his praise?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 writing	case
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writing	compound
3	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 writing	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 put	advmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 put	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 praise	nmod:poss
10	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	would	you	Rad's praise		school writing			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent praise=Theme in writing=Destination
2	praise		Rad						nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

You played very well today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 played	advmod
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	You				today	well property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

You played real goodest today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goodest	amod
4	goodest	goodest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 today	amod
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	You				today		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You played goodly today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	goodly	goodly	ADV	_	2 played	advmod
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	You				today	goodly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

You played rad good today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rad	rad	ADV	_	2 played	advmod
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 played	obj
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	You	good			today	rad property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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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