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Test 2 · ★★ · Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no eithe…

Ella: "Where did I say that? You've been arguing with a ghost for five minutes." Which trick has she spotted?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, You, trick · What happens: say, argue, have, spot · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 189 «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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: Ella: "Where did I say that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 say	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 say	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	Ella	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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: You've been arguing with a ghost for five minutes."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 arguing	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 arguing	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 arguing	aux
4	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ghost	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arguing	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 minutes	case
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minutes	nummod
10	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arguing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arguing	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 arguing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present · perfect · progressive	You				minute	with a ghost	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with ghost=Co-Agent

Sentence 3: Which trick has she spotted?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 trick	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spotted	nsubj
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 has	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	which trick						tree rules
2	spot	participle	trick						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A straw man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A red herring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 herring	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 herring	amod
3	herring	herring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Moving the goalposts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goalposts	det
3	goalposts	goalpost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		the goalposts					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme

Option 4

An either-or

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 either	det
2	either	either	CCONJ	_	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 either	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	2 either	cc

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

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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