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Test 8 · ★ · Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who

In a cartoon, a robot says "Me want battery!" and the kids laugh. What is the grown-up form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot, kids, grown form · What happens: say, want, laugh, be, grow up · To what, where: cartoon, battery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: In a cartoon, a robot says "Me want battery!" and the kids laugh.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 robot	det
6	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
9	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 want	nsubj
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laugh	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kids	det
16	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 laugh	nsubj
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 want	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a robot			a cartoon			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	a robot = robot	battery					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme
3	laugh	present	the kids						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 is the grown-up form?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 form	det
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 form	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 grown	compound:prt
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the grown form						tree rules
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Myself want battery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Myself	battery					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme

Option 2

Me wants a battery

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battery	det
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Me	a battery					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme

Option 3

Him want battery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Him = he	battery					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

I want a battery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 battery	det
4	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I	a battery					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=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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