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Test 6 · Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps

«Wee man, that's no' a ghost, it's just the hoose creakin',» says a Glasgow grandad (wee man = little lad, hoose = house). Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, ghost, Wee man, man · What happens: be, say · To what, where: ghost, Glasgow grandad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 71 «Scary films, games, hospitals and what helps» of the religion ethics 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: «Wee man, that's no' a ghost, it's just the hoose creakin',» says a Glasgow grandad (wee man = little lad, hoose = house).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
2	Wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 says	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ghost	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 ghost	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ghost	cop
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 ghost	det
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 ghost	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ghost	det
10	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 creakin	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 creakin	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 creakin	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 creakin	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 creakin	det
16	hoose	hoose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 creakin	amod
17	creakin	creakin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ghost	appos
18	',	',	PUNCT	_	17 creakin	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 creakin	punct
20	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 grandad	det
22	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 grandad	compound
23	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 says	obj
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 man	punct
25	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grandad	appos
27	=	=	SYM	_	29 lad	punct
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lad	amod
29	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hoose	punct
31	hoose	hoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	conj
32	=	=	SYM	_	33 house	punct
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	conj
34	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 man	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	no ghost					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	ghost					creakin property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	Wee man	a Glasgow grandad					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grandad=Topic

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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	man					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No; creaking is always a ghost moving about the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 creaking	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	creaking	creak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ghost	csubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ghost	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 ghost	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 ghost	acl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	creaking	a ghost				always property	tree rules
3	move	gerund	a ghost not said here					about the house	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme about house=Trajectory

Option 2

No; creaks mean that someone in the house has just died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 creaks	det
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	creaks	creak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 died	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 died	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 someone	nmod
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 died	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 died	advmod
12	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	no creaks						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die	present · perfect	someone						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes; houses creak as they cool and in wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 creak	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 creak	nsubj
4	creak	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 cool	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cool	nsubj
7	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 creak	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 creak	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 wind	case
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 creak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creak	present	houses			wind			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location
2	cool	present	houses = house						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, but only in very old houses with wooden floors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 houses	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 houses	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 houses	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 houses	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 houses	amod
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 floors	case
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 floors	amod
11	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 houses	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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