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Test 8 · ★★ · Friends who cling to a legend

Kofi gets cross: "My dad says tomatoes are veg!" What should you NOT do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kofi, dad, tomatoes, you · What happens: get, say, be, not do · To what, where: cross, veg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» 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: Kofi gets cross: "My dad says tomatoes are veg!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	parataxis
9	tomatoes	tomato	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 veg	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 veg	cop
11	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 veg	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 veg	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Kofi	cross					tree rules
2	say speech: express in a quote	present	My dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	tomatoes	veg					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 should you NOT do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say scientists call them fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	nsubj
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 call	obj
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	present	scientists	them = they					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say his dad doesn't know anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dad	nmod:poss
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	present · do-support	his dad	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 3

Say cooks really do call them veg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 call	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	obj
7	veg	veg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	present · do-support	cooks	them = they					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 4

Say you're both sort of right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sort	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sort	cop
4	both	both	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	amod
5	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 right	case
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sort	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	you	both sort				of right	tree rules

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