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Test 11 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

Callum's sister: "Aye, the shoes sat the test for him." What is she doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: sit, do · To what, where: test

This is test 11 of lesson 161 «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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's sister: "Aye, the shoes sat the test for him."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Callum	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sister	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
6	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	10 sat	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Aye	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoes	det
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 test	det
12	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past	Callum's sister	the test				for Callum	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location test=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: What is she doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	sister						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Praising Gran's new shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shoes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Gran	case
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Praising	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	gerund		Gran's new shoes					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Saying shoes really can take tests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 take	csubj
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Saying	obj
3	really	really	ADV	_	1 Saying	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		shoes					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic
2	take	can	Saying	tests					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Being sarcastic about Gran's reasoning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sarcastic	cop
2	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 reasoning	case
4	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reasoning	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Gran	case
6	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sarcastic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						about Gran's reasoning; sarcastic property	tree rules
2	reason		Gran						nom reasoning «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Calling her brother stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obj
4	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Calling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			her brother			stupid property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=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.

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