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Test 1 · ★ · The rumour that grows

Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care? Lovely. I had a sniffle and a Lemsip." Who is he teasing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr, I · What happens: hear, be, have, tease · To what, where: intensive care, sniffle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» 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: Mr Hughes: "I hear I was in intensive care?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
2	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
6	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 care	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 care	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 care	case
10	intensive	intensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 care	amod
11	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	present	Mr						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is in a quote	past	I			intensive care			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: Lovely.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Lovely	punct

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

Sentence 3: I had a sniffle and a Lemsip."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sniffle	det
4	sniffle	sniffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Lemsip	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Lemsip	det
7	Lemsip	Lemsip	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sniffle	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Lemsip	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Lemsip	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	a sniffle and a Lemsip					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sniffle=Patient

Sentence 4: Who is he teasing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 teasing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teasing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teasing	nsubj
4	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 teasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · progressive							vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The story that grew, not any one child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 any	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 any	advmod
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 child	det
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 child	nummod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the story	any one child					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme

Option 2

People who drink Lemsip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 drink	nsubj
3	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	Lemsip	Lemsip	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	People	Lemsip					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lemsip=Patient

Option 3

The school nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nurse	compound
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Himself for being ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 ill	nsubj
2	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 ill	mark
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Himself = he					ill 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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