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Test 1 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

Ethan, under his breath: "Love that for me. Very informative." What is he being sarcastic about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 1 of lesson 163 «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» 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: Ethan, under his breath: "Love that for me.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 breath	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ethan	punct
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 breath	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Love	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Love	punct
8	Love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breath	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 me	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 Love	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 breath	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Very informative."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 informative	advmod
2	informative	informative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 informative	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 informative	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What is he being sarcastic about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sarcastic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sarcastic	cop
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sarcastic	nsubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sarcastic	cop
5	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	5 sarcastic	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sarcastic	punct

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

The options

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

The answer gave him no reason at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 reason	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the answer	no reason	him = he	all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reason=Theme at all=Asset

Option 2

Liking the word "informative"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liking	like	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Liking	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 informative	punct
5	informative	informative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	appos
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 informative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	gerund		the word					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot word=Theme

Option 3

Mum telling him too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Mum	acl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 telling	iobj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Mum not said here	much	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Topic

Option 4

His bedtime being too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bedtime	nmod:poss
2	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 late	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 late	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 late	advmod
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	His bedtime					late property	tree rules

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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