«the president singing that song?? I'm dead, it's real right» (I'm dead = that's so funny). The voice sounds odd. What is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: president, I, song, that, voice · What happens: sing, be, sound · To what, where: song
This is test 4 of lesson 13 «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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: «the president singing that song??
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
«
«
PUNCT
_
4 singing
punct
2
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
3 president
det
3
president
president
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 singing
nsubj
4
singing
sing
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
5
that
that
DET
Number=Sing PronType=Dem
6 song
det
6
song
song
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 singing
obj
7
??
??
PUNCT
_
4 singing
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
singspeech: expressin a quote
gerund
the president
that song
vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
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: I'm dead, it's real right» (I'm dead = that's so funny).
vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to everyone=Destination
2
check
infinitive
you not said here
it
then
late property
vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
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.