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Test 1 · ★ · Wants and needs

Sammy goes "sweets are a need, Mum, I'm literally starving." What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sammy, sweets, I · What happens: go, be, starve · To what, where: need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 7 «Wants and needs» 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: Sammy goes "sweets are a need, Mum, I'm literally starving."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sammy	Sammy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
4	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 need	det
7	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Mum	punct
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 need	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 starving	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 starving	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 starving	aux
13	literally	literally	ADV	_	14 starving	advmod
14	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 goes	parataxis
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Sammy						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	sweets	a need and Mum					tree rules
3	starve in a quote	present · progressive	I					literally property	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 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

Sweets are healthier than bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 healthier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 healthier	cop
3	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 bread	case
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 healthier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sweets					than bread; healthy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Food is a need, but sweets are a want

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 need	det
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 want	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 want	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 want	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 want	det
10	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Food	a need					tree rules
2	is a	present	sweets	a want					tree rules

Option 3

Starving means you need sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
5	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	gerund							tree rules
2	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	need	present	you	sweets					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sweet=Theme

Option 4

Sweets are a need whenever you're feeling hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 need	det
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 feeling	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 feeling	nsubj
7	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feeling	aux
8	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 need	acl
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sweets	a need					tree rules
2	feel	present · progressive	you					hungry, whenever property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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