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Test 10 · The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss

Ruby goes, "Apple was always huge, innit." What's the real story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, Apple, real story · What happens: go, be, innit

This is test 10 of lesson 32 «The school fair, famous companies and being your own boss» of the money 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: Ruby goes, "Apple was always huge, innit."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 huge	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 huge	punct
5	Apple	Apple	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 huge	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 huge	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 huge	advmod
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 huge	discourse
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Ruby						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	past	Apple					always, huge property	tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive							tree rules

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 the real story?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real story						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It began as a huge company with thousands of workers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 company	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 company	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 company	amod
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 thousands	case
8	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 company	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 workers	case
10	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	It					as a huge company with thousands of workers	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

The government built it in one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 government	det
2	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	nsubj
3	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 built	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	the government	it			day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3

It was handed to its founders by a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 handed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 handed	aux:pass
3	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 founders	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 founders	nmod:poss
6	founders	founder	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 handed	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 handed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past · passive	a king	It		its founders			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to founder=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It started small, the story goes in a garage, and grew by making things people wanted

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 started	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garage	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 garage	det
10	garage	garage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grew	cc
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 started	conj
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 making	mark
15	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 grew	advcl
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 making	obj
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	It					small property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go	present	the story			a garage			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in garage=Location
3	grow	past							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	gerund		things					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
5	want	past	people	things not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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