Test 11 · ★ · Swaps and barter in the playground
A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tuesday, sound?" ("Sound" means okay.) What kind of swap is that?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scouse lad, I, you, Sound, that · What happens: go, do, mean, be · To what, where: Friday dinner duty, me, kind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 4 «Swaps and barter in the playground» 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: A Scouse lad goes, "I'll do your Friday dinner duty if you do me Tuesday, sound?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | Scouse | scouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lad | compound |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 goes | ccomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 duty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 duty | compound |
| 12 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 duty | compound |
| 13 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | iobj |
| 18 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sound | punct |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Tuesday | appos |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a Scouse lad | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | I | your Friday dinner duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | me | tuesday | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: ("Sound" means okay.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sound | punct |
| 3 | Sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sound | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Sound | okay property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What kind of swap is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 swap | case |
| 4 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | what kind | of swap | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A swap of time and help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 swap | det |
| 2 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swap | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 help | cc |
| 6 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swap | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | time | nom swap «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
A swap of money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 swap | det |
| 2 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swap | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | money | nom swap «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
A threat dressed as a deal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 threat | det |
| 2 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 threat | acl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 deal | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | a threat not said here | as a deal | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A gift with nothing back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 nothing | case |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 gift | nmod |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 nothing | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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