Test 8 · ★ · Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, excla…
Your Kiwi mate asks "Want to come to the beach? We'll grab jandals." You reply "Yeah nah." ("Jandals" are flip-flops.) What did you say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kiwi mate, We, You, Jandals · What happens: ask, want, come, grab, reply, be · To what, where: beach, jandals, flip flops · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 Kiwi mate asks "Want to come to the beach?
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 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Kiwi | Kiwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | compound |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Want | punct |
| 6 | Want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Want | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 beach | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beach | det |
| 11 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Your Kiwi mate | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Your Kiwi mate not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Your Kiwi mate not said here | 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: We'll grab jandals."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 grab | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grab | aux |
| 3 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | jandals | jandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grab | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grab | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 grab | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | future | We | jandals | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jandal=Theme |
Sentence 3: You reply "Yeah nah."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 reply | nsubj |
| 2 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 nah | punct |
| 4 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 nah | discourse |
| 5 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 2 reply | discourse |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | You | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 4: ("Jandals" are flip-flops.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 flops | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jandals | punct |
| 3 | Jandals | jandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flops | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jandals | punct |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 flops | cop |
| 6 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flops | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 flip | punct |
| 8 | flops | flop | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flops | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 flops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jandals | flip flops | tree rules |
Sentence 5: What did you say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Bring jandals for me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | jandals | jandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | jandals | for me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jandal=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, softly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 softly | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ask me again later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | iobj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Ask | advmod |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Ask | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | me | again | late property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
Option 4
Yes, definitely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 definitely | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/t8/