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Test 10 · ★★ · Tenses: past, present and future

Dad asks "What'll you be doing at 3 tomorrow?" Which reply uses the future continuous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, you, reply · What happens: ask, do, use · To what, where: 3, future continuous · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Tenses: past, present and future» 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: Dad asks "What'll you be doing at 3 tomorrow?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 doing	obj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 doing	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 doing	aux
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asks	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 3	case
10	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 doing	obl
11	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 3	nmod:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Dad						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do in a quote	future · progressive	you			3 tomorrow			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 reply uses the future continuous?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 continuous	det
5	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 continuous	amod
6	continuous	continuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 uses	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which reply	the future continuous					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent continuous=Patient

The options

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

I'll be swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 swimming	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swimming	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 swimming	cop
4	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	I	swimming					tree rules

Option 2

I was swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 swimming	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swimming	aux
3	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past · progressive	I						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

I swam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	I						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

I've swum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 swum	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swum	aux
3	swum	swim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present · perfect	I						vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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