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Test 4 · "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons

Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July. You're not a thermometer." What should actually decide about the coat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, You · What happens: wear, not be, decide · To what, where: jumper, thermometer

This is test 4 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: Mia: "Mum, you wear a jumper in July.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wear	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mia	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mia	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 wear	nsubj
7	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jumper	det
9	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wear	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 July	case
11	July	July	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wear	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear in a quote	present	Mia	a jumper			july		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent jumper=Source

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: You're not a thermometer."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thermometer	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thermometer	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 thermometer	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thermometer	det
5	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thermometer	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thermometer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	You	a thermometer					tree rules

Sentence 3: What should actually decide about the coat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 decide	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 decide	aux
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 decide	advmod
4	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 coat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coat	det
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decide	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	should						about the coat; actually property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whatever Mia feels at that moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 feels	obj
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Mia	Whatever			moment		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme

Option 2

Whatever Mum feels at that moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 feels	obj
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	nsubj
3	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 moment	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Mum	Whatever			moment		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A check of the real weather, and maybe taking it just in case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 check	det
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 weather	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weather	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weather	amod
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 taking	cc
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	10 taking	advmod
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 check	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 taking	obj
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 case	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 case	case
14	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		weather				maybe property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme case=Destination
2	check		the real weather						nom check «possession intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Never wearing coats at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 wearing	advmod
2	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wearing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 wearing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wear	gerund		coats		all			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coat=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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