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Test 2 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

Nan: "Aye, and I suppose my slippers won the cup in '86." What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, slippers, she · What happens: suppose, win, mean · To what, where: cup, 86 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Nan: "Aye, and I suppose my slippers won the cup in '86."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 suppose	punct
4	Aye	aye	INTJ	_	8 suppose	discourse
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 suppose	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 suppose	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 suppose	nsubj
8	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nan	appos
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 slippers	nmod:poss
10	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 won	nsubj
11	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 suppose	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cup	det
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 won	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 86	case
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 86	punct
16	86	86	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 won	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Nan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win in a quote	past	my slippers	the cup		86			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality

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	she						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

She really believes her slippers helped her team win the cup back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believes	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 believes	advmod
3	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 slippers	nmod:poss
5	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 helped	nsubj
6	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 believes	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 helped	obj
8	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	nsubj
9	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 believes	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cup	det
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	9 win	advmod
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	present	She						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	help	past	her slippers		her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3	win back	present	team	the cup			then		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By the same logic any old thing could win a match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 logic	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 logic	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 logic	amod
4	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obl
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 thing	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 win	aux
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 match	det
11	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	could	any old thing	a match				by the same logic	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality

Option 3

Slippers are luckier than socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 luckier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 luckier	cop
3	luckier	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 socks	case
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 luckier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Slippers					than socks; lucky property	tree rules

Option 4

She played in the cup final in 1986

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 final	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 final	det
5	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 final	compound
6	final	final	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1986	case
8	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	She			the cup final		in 1986	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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