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Test 10 · ★★ · Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

Dad, embarrassed, says "I can't say 'I've drunk the milk', sounds dodgy." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: say, not say, drink, sound, be · To what, where: milk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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, embarrassed, says "I can't say 'I've drunk the milk', sounds dodgy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 embarrassed	punct
3	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Dad	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 say	advmod
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	14 drunk	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 drunk	nsubj
13	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 drunk	aux
14	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 sounds	csubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 milk	det
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drunk	obj
17	',	',	PUNCT	_	14 drunk	punct
18	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	parataxis
19	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sounds	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert in a quote	can	Dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	drink in a quote	present · perfect	Dad	the milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
4	sound in a quote	present						dodgy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"I've drinked" is the polite form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drinked	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 drinked	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drinked	aux
4	drinked	drinke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 form	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drinked	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 form	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drinke in a quote	present · perfect	I						tree rules
2	is a	present		the polite form					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"I have drunk" is correct; the funny double meaning doesn't change that

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drunk	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 drunk	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	aux
4	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drunk	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 correct	cop
7	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drunk	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 change	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 meaning	det
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meaning	amod
11	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meaning	amod
12	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 change	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 change	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 change	advmod
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drunk	conj
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	present · perfect	I						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be speech: disagree	present	I not said here					correct property	tree rules
3	not change	present · do-support	the funny double meaning	that					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

Option 3

You can never say you drank milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	can	You						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drink	past	you	milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

Option 4

"I've drank" is the correct form, because drunk means something else

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	aux
4	drank	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 form	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 form	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
8	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 form	amod
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 means	mark
12	drunk	drunk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 form	parataxis
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 means	obj
15	else	else	ADV	_	14 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink in a quote	present · perfect	I						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the correct form					tree rules
3	mean	present	drunk	something					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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