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Test 11 · ★ · Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, excla…

Your brother says "every sentence starting with 'what' is a question, easy." Which sentence proves him wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, starting, sentence · What happens: say, start, be, prove · To what, where: question, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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: Your brother says "every sentence starting with 'what' is a question, easy."

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 sentence	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sentence	det
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
7	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 question	csubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 what	case
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 starting	obl
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 question	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 question	det
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sentence	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 easy	punct
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 question	amod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 question	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	start in a quote	gerund						with a question	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with what=Subeventuality
3	be speech: other in a quote	present	starting	a question					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	brother				wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

What a mess!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 mess	det
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mess	det
3	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 mess	punct

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

Option 2

What is your name?

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	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	your name						tree rules
2	name		your						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

What did you eat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 eat	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · do-support	you						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Option 4

What time is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	expl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	what time	it					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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