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Test 6 · ★ · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts

Someone at the park says, "I'm going on holiday to Africa, they speak African there." What's a kind and true reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone, they · What happens: say, go, speak, be · To what, where: Africa, holiday, African, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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: Someone at the park says, "I'm going on holiday to Africa, they speak African there."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 says	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 park	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 park	det
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Someone	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 going	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 going	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 holiday	case
12	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Africa	case
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 going	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speak	nsubj
17	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
18	African	African	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 speak	obj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 speak	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	Someone		Africa	holiday			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to africa=Initial_Location
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	they	African		there			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 a kind and true reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 kind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reply	cc
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reply	amod
7	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Laugh at them in front of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					at them = they; in front of everyone	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme

Option 2

No, they all speak English there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	they	English		there			tree rules

Option 3

Yes, everybody there speaks African

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 everybody	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 speaks	nsubj
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 everybody	advmod
5	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speaks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	everybody					african property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Which country? Africa has 54, with thousands of languages

Sentence 1: Which country?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 country	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Africa has 54, with thousands of languages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	54	54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 has	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thousands	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 thousands	case
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 languages	case
8	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Africa	54					tree rules

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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