Test 1 · ★ · Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who
Your mate goes "and I is always the posh correct one, innit." Which sentence proves him wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, I, sentence · What happens: go, be, prove · To what, where: posh correct one, mate
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 5 «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» 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 "and I is always the posh correct one, innit."
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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 one | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 10 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 11 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 14 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | I | the posh correct one and innit | always property | 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: Which sentence proves him wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sentence | det |
| 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 | which sentence | mate | wrong property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ben and I went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 I | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Ben | conj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ben | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Ben and me went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 me | cc |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Ben | conj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ben | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Me and Ben went home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Ben | cc |
| 3 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Me | conj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Me | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Gran sent a card to Ben and me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 card | det |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ben | case |
| 6 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 me | cc |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Ben | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Gran | a card | Ben | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent card=Theme to ben=Destination |
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