Test 8 · ★★ · Tenses: past, present and future
An American friend asks "Did you finish your homework yet?" Your British gran would ask it how?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: American friend, you, British gran · What happens: ask, finish · To what, where: homework · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: An American friend asks "Did you finish your homework yet?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 2 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 finish | punct |
| 6 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finish | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 finish | nsubj |
| 8 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 homework | nmod:poss |
| 10 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finish | obj |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 finish | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 finish | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 finish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a American friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | finish in a quote | past · do-support | you | your homework | yet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=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: Your British gran would ask it how?
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 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gran | amod |
| 3 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | obj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ask | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | would | Your British gran | homework | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Have you finish your homework yet?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finish | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 homework | nmod:poss |
| 5 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finish | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 finish | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 finish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present | you | your homework | yet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Have you finished your homework yet?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 homework | nmod:poss |
| 5 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finished | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 finished | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · perfect | you | your homework | yet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality |
Option 3
Are you finish your homework yet?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finish | cop |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | finish | finish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 homework | nmod:poss |
| 5 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finish | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 finish | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 finish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | yet | finish property | tree rules |
Option 4
Did you finished your homework yet?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finished | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 homework | nmod:poss |
| 5 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finished | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 3 finished | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · do-support | you | your homework | yet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector homework=Eventuality |
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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