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Test 8 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

Noah: "Ammamma, the crow's not on WhatsApp." Why is this a good comeback?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: crow, this · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: WhatsApp

This is test 8 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: Noah: "Ammamma, the crow's not on WhatsApp."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Ammamma	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Ammamma	punct
4	Ammamma	Ammamma	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Noah	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 WhatsApp	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crow	det
7	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 WhatsApp	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 WhatsApp	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 WhatsApp	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 WhatsApp	case
11	WhatsApp	WhatsApp	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ammamma	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 WhatsApp	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 WhatsApp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the crow			WhatsApp			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: Why is this a good comeback?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Why	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 comeback	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comeback	amod
6	comeback	comeback	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It points to the real cause, the phone call

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 points	nsubj
2	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 cause	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cause	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cause	amod
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 points	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 call	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 call	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	compound
10	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point	present	It		the real cause				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cause=Recipient

Option 2

It shows that crows can't count guests

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 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 count	mark
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 count	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 count	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 count	advmod
7	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shows	ccomp
8	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 count	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not count	can	crows	guests					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Theme

Option 3

It means crows only use other apps

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 apps	amod
7	apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	present	crows	other apps					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent app=Patient

Option 4

It proves that guests never come on Sundays

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
4	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Sundays	case
8	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not come	present	guests				sunday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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