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Test 10 · ★ · Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, excla…

In a cartoon, a pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag." ("Ye" is old "you", a scallywag is a rascal.) What kind of sentence is it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pirate, Ye, scallywag · What happens: growl, walk, be · To what, where: cartoon, plank, rascal, kind

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 7 «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 pirate growls "Walk the plank, ye scallywag."

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 growls	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pirate	det
6	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growls	nsubj
7	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Walk	punct
9	Walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 growls	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plank	det
11	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Walk	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scallywag	punct
13	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 scallywag	compound
14	scallywag	scallywag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Walk	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 growls	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 growls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	present	a pirate			a cartoon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk in a quote	infinitive	a pirate not said here	the plank				ye scallywag obl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plank=Trajectory

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: ("Ye" is old "you", a scallywag is a rascal.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ye	punct
3	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 old	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ye	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 you	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rascal	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 scallywag	det
12	scallywag	scallywag	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rascal	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rascal	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rascal	det
15	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	parataxis
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ye					old property	tree rules
2	is a	present	a scallywag	a rascal					tree rules

Sentence 3: What kind of sentence is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sentence	case
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	cop
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kind	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	scallywag	what kind				of sentence	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A command

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 command	det
2	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A statement about planks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 planks	case
4	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 statement	nmod

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

Option 4

An exclamation of joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 exclamation	det
2	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 joy	case
4	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exclamation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exclaim			joy					nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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