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Test 4 · ★ · Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who

Your cousin reckons "thou" was always the posh, formal word. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, thou · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: posh formal word

This is test 4 · ★ 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 cousin reckons "thou" was always the posh, formal word.

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 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thou	punct
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 word	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thou	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 word	cop
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 word	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 word	det
10	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 posh	punct
12	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Your cousin						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	thou	the posh formal word				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: 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

It was the friendly, informal word for one person

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	7 word	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 word	det
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friendly	punct
6	informal	informal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 person	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 person	nummod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the friendly informal word				for one person	tree rules

Option 2

It was never a real English word

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	7 word	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 word	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 word	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
6	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	It	a real English word					tree rules

Option 3

It was the plural, like "you all"

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	4 plural	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 plural	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 plural	det
4	plural	plural	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 you	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 plural	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 you	nmod:unmarked
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the plural					tree rules

Option 4

He's right, kings and queens used it only to each other

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	_	8 used	punct
5	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 queens	cc
7	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kings	conj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 right	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	obj
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 each	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 used	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	use	past	kings and queens	it				to each	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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