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Test 3 · ★ · Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sent…

An Aussie mate says "Heaps of us are going to the beach this arvo, ya keen?" ("Heaps" means lots, "keen" means up for it.) When are they going?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Aussie mate, Heaps, keen · What happens: say, go, mean, mean up · To what, where: arvo, beach, lots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 6 «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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: An Aussie mate says "Heaps of us are going to the beach this arvo, ya keen?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mate	det
2	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
6	Heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 going	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Heaps	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 says	ccomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 beach	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beach	det
13	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 arvo	det
15	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keen	punct
17	ya	ya	X	_	18 keen	compound
18	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arvo	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	a Aussie mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	Heaps of us	this arvo and ya keen		the beach			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beach=Initial_Location

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: ("Heaps" means lots, "keen" means up for it.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Heaps	punct
3	Heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Heaps	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 means	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 keen	punct
9	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 keen	punct
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 means	compound:prt
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Heaps	lots					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
2	mean up	present	keen					for beach	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for it=Attribute

Sentence 3: When are they going?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 going	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	Heaps = heap						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tomorrow night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	compound
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

This afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 afternoon	det
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

This morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Next weekend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weekend	amod
2	weekend	weekend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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