Test 4 · ★ · Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too…
Ava's gran from Liverpool says, "Ah, there's nowt wrong with being loud, girl, that's just you." ("Nowt" means nothing.) What is the advice?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: gran, nowt, that, advice · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 22 «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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: Ava's gran from Liverpool says, "Ah, there's nowt wrong with being loud, girl, that's just you."
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
doesin a quote
present
nowt and girl
there
vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3
isin a quote
gerund
loud property
tree rules
4
is ain a quote
present
that
you
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.
vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
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.