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Test 2 · ★★ · How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks

Max says, "Red kit = win, a study proved it, so I'll win Saturday." What's the sensible view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, study, sensible view · What happens: say, prove, win, be · To what, where: Red kit, win · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 30 «How would we know? Asking experts and spotting tricks» 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: Max says, "Red kit = win, a study proved it, so I'll win Saturday."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kit	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 kit	punct
5	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kit	amod
6	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obl
7	=	=	SYM	_	8 win	punct
8	win	win	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kit	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proved	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 study	det
11	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proved	nsubj
12	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 win	acl:relcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 proved	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 win	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 win	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 win	nsubj
17	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 win	aux
18	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
19	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 win	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 win	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 win	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Max	Red kit and win					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	prove in a quote	past	a study	win					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	win in a quote	future	Max				saturday		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 sensible view?

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 view	det
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	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 sensible view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He's sure to win if he wears red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 win	mark
5	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	xcomp
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 wears	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wears	nsubj
8	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 win	advcl
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wears	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					sure property	tree rules
2	win	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wear a condition, not said to happen	present	he					red property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The effect was small and argued about; training matters far more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 effect	det
2	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 argued	cc
6	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 small	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	6 argued	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 matters	punct
9	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 matters	nsubj
10	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	parataxis
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 matters	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the effect					small property	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	participle	the effect not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	matter	present	training						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

The study proved blue makes you lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 study	det
2	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
3	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 study	acl:relcl
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proved	xcomp
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 makes	obj
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past	the study not said here					blue property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	the study	you					tree rules
3	lose	infinitive	you not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Red kit makes the other team lose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kit	amod
2	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 team	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 team	amod
6	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
7	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Red kit	the other team					tree rules
2	lose	present	the other team not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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