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Test 10 · ★★★ · The football argument that goes in circles

Lunch lady: "You've spent all break on a sausage. Go outside, the both of you." What would actually settle the hot dog question?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: spend, go, settle · To what, where: break, sausage, both, hot dog question

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 170 «The football argument that goes in circles» 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: Lunch lady: "You've spent all break on a sausage.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lady	compound
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 spent	punct
5	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 spent	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spent	aux
7	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 lady	acl:relcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 break	det
9	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sausage	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sausage	det
12	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spent	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lady	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend in a quote	present · perfect	You	all break				on a sausage goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent break=Asset on sausage=Goal

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: Go outside, the both of you."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 both	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 both	det
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Go	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 both	nmod
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	both				outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: What would actually settle the hot dog question?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 settle	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 settle	aux
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 settle	advmod
4	settle	settle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 question	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 question	amod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 question	compound
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 settle	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 settle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	would		the hot dog question				actually property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Agreeing first what "sandwich" means

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agreeing	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 means	csubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 what	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 sandwich	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sandwich	punct
5	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agreeing	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sandwich	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	gerund							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sandwich in a quote								tree rules
3	mean	present	Agreeing						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Asking the lunch lady to have a vote on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lady	compound
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vote	det
8	vote	vote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the lunch lady				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive		a vote		vote			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vote=Patient

Option 3

Eating the hot dog quickly before it's cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Eating	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 cold	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cold	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cold	cop
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Eating	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		the hot dog				quickly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	is	present	dog					cold property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Arguing for another 20 minutes after school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 minutes	case
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 minutes	det
4	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 minutes	nummod
5	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Arguing	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 minutes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	gerund					minute		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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