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Test 4 · ★★ · Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

Tyler argues "sing, sang, sung, so bring, brang, brung, innit." What's wrong with his logic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tyler · What happens: argue, sing, bring, be · To what, where: sing, brang · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Tyler argues "sing, sang, sung, so bring, brang, brung, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 argues	nsubj
2	argues	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct
4	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argues	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sang	punct
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sung	punct
8	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sang	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bring	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 bring	advmod
11	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 argues	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brang	punct
13	brang	brang	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brung	punct
15	brung	brung	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brang	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
17	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brang	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 argues	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 argues	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Tyler	sing					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent sing=Topic
2	sing speech: express in a quote	past	Tyler not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express in a quote	participle	Tyler not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bring in a quote	infinitive	Tyler not said here	brang and brung and innit					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent brang=Theme

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 wrong with his logic?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 logic	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 logic	nmod:poss
6	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with Tyler's logic; wrong property	tree rules

The options

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

The pattern is real, but bring belongs to the -ought family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pattern	det
2	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 belongs	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 belongs	cc
7	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 belongs	nsubj
8	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 family	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 family	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 the	punct
12	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 family	aux
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 belongs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pattern					real property	tree rules
2	bring	infinitive							vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	belong	present						to the family	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sing is irregular but bring is regular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 irregular	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 irregular	cop
3	irregular	irregular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 bring	cc
5	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 irregular	conj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 regular	cop
7	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 irregular	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sing					irregular property	tree rules
2	bring	present	Sing not said here						vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Sing not said here					regular property	tree rules

Option 3

Sing should be sing, singed, singed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sing	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sing	cop
4	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 singed	punct
6	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sing	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 singed	punct
8	singed	singe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	Sing	sing					tree rules
2	singe	participle	Sing not said here						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	singe	participle	Sing not said here						vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing, because brung is standard English in every country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 English	mark
4	brung	brung	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 English	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 English	cop
6	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 English	amod
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 English	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	brung	standard English		every country			tree rules

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