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Test 2 · ★ · Trick questions that catch quick thinkers

Ellie's brother: "Bro thinks overtaking is teleporting." What should Ellie have told her mum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, brother, Ellie · What happens: think, overtake, teleport, tell · To what, where: brother, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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: Ellie's brother: "Bro thinks overtaking is teleporting."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ellie	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 teleporting	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
6	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brother	acl:relcl
8	overtaking	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 thinks	xcomp
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 teleporting	aux
10	teleporting	teleport	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 teleporting	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 teleporting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present	Bro	Ellie's brother not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent brother=Attribute clause=Theme
2	overtake in a quote	gerund	Bro not said here						tree rules
3	teleport in a quote	present · progressive	Ellie's brother						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: What should Ellie have told her mum?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 told	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
3	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should · perfect	Ellie		Ellie's mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"I didn't finish."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 finish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 finish	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 finish	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 finish	advmod
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finish	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 finish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not finish in a quote	past · do-support	I						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

"I came third."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	third	third	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	I					third property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"I came second."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	second	second	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	I					second property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

"I came first."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 came	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past	I					first 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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