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Test 2 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

An older kid tells the hook man story as if it happened in your town. What's the clue it's a legend?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: older kid, it, clue, story · What happens: tell, happen, be · To what, where: man story, town, legend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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: An older kid tells the hook man story as if it happened in your town.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
6	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 happened	mark
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 happened	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 happened	nsubj
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 town	nmod:poss
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 happened	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a older kid	the man story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	it			your town			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in town=Location

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 clue it's a legend?

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	4 clue	det
4	clue	clue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 legend	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 legend	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 legend	det
8	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clue	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

It's been told in many places since the 1950s

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	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 places	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 places	amod
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obl
8	since	since	ADP	_	10 1950s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 1950s	det
10	1950s	1950	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	4 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		It		many places	since the 1950s		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

It happened at night

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 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It's about a car

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	5 car	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 car	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 car	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a car				about property	tree rules

Option 4

It has a man in it

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 man	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	a man		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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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