Test 8 · The big language quiz

What would happen if you wrote "Let's eat Grandma!" on Grandma's birthday card with no comma?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, 's · What happens: happen, write, let, eat · To what, where: birthday card, 's, Grandma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 40 «The big language quiz» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wrote	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Let	punct
8	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrote	ccomp
9	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Let	obj
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 Let	xcomp
11	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 card	case
15	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 card	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Grandma	case
17	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 card	compound
18	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 comma	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 comma	det
21	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 card	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would			Grandma's birthday card with no comma	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on card=Location
2	write a condition, not said to happen	past	you			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	's		tree rules
4	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	Grandma		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient

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.

The options

Option 1

It would turn into a question

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	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 question	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a question			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into question=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing, commas never change meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 commas	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Nothing commas	meaning					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would sound like you plan to eat her

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	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 plan	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 plan	nsubj
6	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plan	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sound	would	It		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	plan	present	you		vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	her = she	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4

It would mean Grandma is cooking

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cooking	compound
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cooking	cop
6	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		Grandma cooking					tree rules

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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