--- title: Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» How has Nan been… — Vocabulary in context · tree and pragmatics description: Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» How has Nan been talking? Test 8 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Vocabulary in context](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/) / t8 # Test 8 · Vocabulary in context Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» How has Nan been talking? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** nan · **What happens:** be, talk This is test 8 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» of the English 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:20-vocabulary-in-context:t8:1 # text = Mia's mum: «Your nan's been curt with me all day.» 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 nan nan NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 10 curt curt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your nan | | | | day | with me; curt *property* | 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:* How has Nan been talking? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:20-vocabulary-in-context:t8:2 # text = How has Nan been talking? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 Nan Nan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present · perfect · progressive | Nan | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Short and unfriendly ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:20-vocabulary-in-context:t8:o1:1 # text = Short and unfriendly 1 Short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 unfriendly unfriendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Loud and happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:20-vocabulary-in-context:t8:o2:1 # text = Loud and happy 1 Loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} In a funny accent ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:20-vocabulary-in-context:t8:o3:1 # text = In a funny accent 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Kind and chatty ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:20-vocabulary-in-context:t8:o4:1 # text = Kind and chatty 1 Kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ ``` 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. 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