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Test 3 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

Tyler: "Back in your day you didn't have the internet, Grandpa." What point is he making?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tyler, point · What happens: not have, make · To what, where: internet

This is test 3 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: Tyler: "Back in your day you didn't have the internet, Grandpa."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Back	punct
4	Back	back	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 day	nmod:poss
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 have	advmod
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 internet	det
13	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Grandpa	punct
15	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	past · do-support	Tyler	the internet			day	Grandpa obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent internet=Patient

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 point is he making?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	point						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product

The options

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

The old way is not automatically the right way now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 way	amod
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 way	advmod
6	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	9 way	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the old way	the right way			now	automatically property	tree rules

Option 2

The internet is a good reason not to eat your peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 internet	det
2	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reason	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reason	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reason	amod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 eat	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reason	acl:relcl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 peas	nmod:poss
11	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the internet	a good reason					tree rules
2	not eat	to-infinitive		your peas					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Patient

Option 3

Grandpa is far too old to understand anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 old	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 old	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 understand	mark
7	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 old	xcomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 understand	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 understand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grandpa					far, old property	tree rules
2	understand	to-infinitive	Grandpa not said here	anything		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

Peas were only invented after the internet came along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 invented	advmod
4	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 internet	det
7	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	advcl
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		Peas					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
2	come along	past	the internet					along property	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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