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Test 6 · ★ · The rumour that grows

Bus driver: "We're not bust, we're stuck behind a tractor, my lovers." What does "my lovers" mean here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: We, lovers · What happens: not be, stick, mean · To what, where: we, tractor

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Bus driver: "We're not bust, we're stuck behind a tractor, my lovers."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 driver	compound
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 bust	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bust	punct
5	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bust	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bust	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bust	advmod
8	bust	bust	ADJ	_	2 driver	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stuck	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 stuck	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stuck	aux:pass
12	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bust	conj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 tractor	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tractor	det
15	tractor	tractor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuck	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lovers	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lovers	nmod:poss
18	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tractor	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bust	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bust	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	We					bust property	tree rules
2	stick in a quote	present · passive		we		a tractor and my lovers			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind tractor=Destination

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 does "my lovers" mean here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mean	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lovers	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lovers	nmod:poss
5	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mean	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 lovers	punct
7	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 mean	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	my lovers			here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

A friendly West Country greeting, like "friends"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 greeting	det
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 greeting	amod
3	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Country	compound
4	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 greeting	compound
5	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 friends	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greeting	appos
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct

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

Option 2

That the tractor is his

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 tractor	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tractor	det
3	tractor	tractor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 his	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tractor	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that tractor not said here	his = he					tree rules

Option 3

That he loves the children personally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 loves	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loves	nsubj
3	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loves	obj
6	personally	personally	ADV	_	3 loves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	That	the children				personally property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 4

That the trip is cancelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 trip	det
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trip	det
3	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cancelled	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cancelled	aux:pass
5	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	present · passive		that trip					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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