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Test 11 · "How do you know?"

Nan in Liverpool: "Don't you get smart with me, missy, dry that hair or you'll catch your death." What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, your, truth · What happens: do, not get, catch, die, be · To what, where: missy, death

This is test 11 of lesson 186 «"How do you know?"» 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: Nan in Liverpool: "Don't you get smart with me, missy, dry that hair or you'll catch your death."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Liverpool	case
3	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Nan	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
6	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Nan	parataxis
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Do	advcl
10	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 smart	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 missy	punct
14	missy	missy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Do	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dry	punct
16	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 missy	amod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 hair	mark
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dry	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 catch	cc
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 catch	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 catch	aux
22	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dry	conj
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 death	nmod:poss
24	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 catch	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	infinitive		missy					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not get in a quote	present	you					smart property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	catch in a quote	future	you	your death					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
4	die in a quote		your						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 is the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth						tree rules

The options

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

Colds come from viruses; drying your hair is just nicer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 viruses	case
4	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 drying	punct
6	drying	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 nicer	csubj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drying	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nicer	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 nicer	advmod
11	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Colds			viruses			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial_Location
2	dry	gerund		your hair					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result
3	is	present	drying					nice property	tree rules

Option 2

Wet hair always gives you a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 gives	advmod
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gives	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Wet hair	a cold	you			always property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cold=Theme

Option 3

Wet hair makes cold viruses grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 viruses	amod
5	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Wet hair						tree rules
2	grow	present	cold viruses						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nan is wrong, so never dry your hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dry	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 dry	advmod
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 dry	advmod
7	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrong	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nan					wrong property	tree rules
2	not dry	infinitive	Nan not said here	your hair					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hair=Result

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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