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Test 6 · ★★ · "Five more minutes" and other waiting games

A Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa) cousin says, "Lekker, I'll fetch you just now." Should you be at the gate this second?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Joburg, you · What happens: say, fetch, be · To what, where: Lekker, you, gate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 109 «"Five more minutes" and other waiting games» of the world 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: A Joburg (Johannesburg, South Africa) cousin says, "Lekker, I'll fetch you just now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Joburg	det
2	Joburg	Joburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 Johannesburg	punct
4	Johannesburg	Johannesburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Joburg	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Africa	punct
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Africa	compound
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Johannesburg	conj
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 Johannesburg	punct
9	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Lekker	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Lekker	punct
13	Lekker	Lekker	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 says	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 fetch	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fetch	aux
17	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 fetch	obj
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 now	advmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fetch	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 fetch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Joburg	Lekker					tree rules
2	fetch in a quote	future	a Joburg = joburg	you			now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: Should you be at the gate this second?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gate	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 gate	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 gate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 second	det
8	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gate	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	you			the gate	second		tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, and she is already outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 outside	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 outside	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 outside	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 outside	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 outside	advmod
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, "just now" always means this second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 now	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 now	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 means	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 now	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 second	det
10	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present					now; second	always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, "just now" can mean a bit later in South Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 now	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 now	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	_	8 mean	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 now	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 mean	aux
8	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 later	obl:unmarked
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 mean	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 Africa	case
13	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Africa	compound
14	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can						in South Africa; late property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in africa=Attribute

Option 4

No, it means tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it				tomorrow		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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