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Test 9 · Day and night, shadows and sundials

Ava's gran, at 5 am: "Up with the larks, are we?" What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, Ava · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: we

This is test 9 of lesson 118 «Day and night, shadows and sundials» 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: Ava's gran, at 5 am: "Up with the larks, are we?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gran	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 we	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 5	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 5	case
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 gran	appos
7	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 5	nmod:unmarked
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 larks	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Up	punct
10	Up	up	ADV	_	13 larks	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 larks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 larks	det
13	larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gran	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 larks	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 we	cop
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 we	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 we	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Ava's gran	we					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 does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Ava						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You've been out birdwatching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 birdwatching	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birdwatching	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 birdwatching	cop
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 been	compound:prt
5	birdwatching	birdwatching	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	You	birdwatching					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You're up very early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 up	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 up	cop
3	up	up	ADV	_	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 early	advmod
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 up	advmod

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

Option 3

You stayed up all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stayed	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	past	You				night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You're as noisy as a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 noisy	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 noisy	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 noisy	advmod
4	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noisy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					as a bird; noisy property	tree rules

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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