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Test 4 · ★ · Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, excla…

Your Irish auntie says "Would you ever pass the salt, love?" What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Irish auntie, you · What happens: say, pass, do · To what, where: salt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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 Irish auntie says "Would you ever pass the salt, love?"

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	3 auntie	nmod:poss
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 auntie	amod
3	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 pass	punct
6	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pass	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 pass	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 pass	advmod
9	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 salt	det
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pass	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 salt	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 pass	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 pass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Your Irish auntie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass in a quote	would	you	the salt and love			ever		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme salt=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: What should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Explain where the salt is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	1 Explain	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salt	det
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 where	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the salt					where property	tree rules

Option 2

Ask what "ever" means first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 means	obj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ever	punct
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 means	advmod
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 ever	punct
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present					ever	first property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pass the salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 salt	det
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	imperative	you not said here	the salt					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme salt=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Say "maybe one day"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 day	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 day	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here				day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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