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Test 7 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

Ellie says, "Absolute weapon of a plan, Dad," about skipping floor 13. What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ellie · What happens: say, skip, mean · To what, where: Absolute weapon, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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: Ellie says, "Absolute weapon of a plan, Dad," about skipping floor 13.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 weapon	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 weapon	punct
5	Absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weapon	amod
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 plan	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weapon	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Dad	punct
11	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 skipping	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 skipping	punct
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 skipping	mark
15	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	advcl
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 skipping	obj
17	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 floor	flat
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ellie	Absolute weapon of a plan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weapon=Topic
2	skip	gerund	Ellie not said here	floor					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Agent

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

The options

Option 1

She wants to sleep on floor 12 instead

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obj
7	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 floor	nummod
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 sleep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	floor				instead property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Theme

Option 2

It's a brilliant plan and she is impressed

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	5 plan	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 impressed	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 impressed	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 impressed	cop
9	impressed	impressed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a brilliant plan					tree rules
2	is	present	she					impressed property	tree rules

Option 3

The plan is dangerous, like a weapon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 weapon	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 weapon	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 weapon	det
8	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the plan					like a weapon; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's a silly plan, because a new number doesn't change the floor

The tree, 14 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	5 plan	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 plan	det
4	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 change	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 change	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 number	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 number	amod
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	nsubj
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 change	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 change	advmod
13	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 plan	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floor	det
15	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a silly plan					tree rules
2	not change	present · do-support	a new number	the floor					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=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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