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Test 1 · Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and dead…

Callum: "Sorry for being early? That's mad." Why did the Japanese company say sorry?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, Japanese company · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 129 «Being on time around the world, waiting your turn and deadlines» 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: Callum: "Sorry for being early?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sorry	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Sorry	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sorry	punct
4	Sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 early	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 early	cop
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 Sorry	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Sorry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	gerund						early property	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: That's mad."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mad	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 mad	punct

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

Sentence 3: Why did the Japanese company say sorry?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 company	det
4	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 company	amod
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	past · do-support	the Japanese company					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Passengers who came on time could have missed the train

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 missed	nsubj:pass
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Passengers	acl:relcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 time	case
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 missed	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 missed	aux
8	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 train	det
10	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Passengers				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	miss	could · perfect · passive		Passengers					tree rules

Option 2

It's the law to say sorry every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 law	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 law	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 law	det
4	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 law	acl
7	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the law					tree rules
2	say speech: apologize	to-infinitive					day	sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It arrived early at the end of the line and the driver got told off

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 arrived	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 line	det
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 driver	det
12	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj:pass
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux:pass
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 arrived	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	It				at the end of the line	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell off speech: assert	past · passive		the driver					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The train broke a world speed record

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 train	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 record	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speed	compound
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 record	compound
7	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the train	a speed record					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer record=Patient

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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