--- title: Ellie in Texas: "Y'all should've told me!" ("Y'all" means you all.)… — Active and passive voice, modal verbs · tree and pragmatics description: Ellie in Texas: "Y'all should've told me!" ("Y'all" means you all.) Which modal is she using? 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Which modal is she using? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Y'all, modal · **What happens:** tell, mean, use · **To what, where:** Ellie, me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ellie in Texas: "Y'all should've told me!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:1 # text = Ellie in Texas: "Y'all should've told me!" 1 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Y'all y'all PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 8 've have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux _ _ 9 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should · perfect · passive | | Ellie in Texas | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=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:* ("Y'all" means you all.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:2 # text = ("Y'all" means you all.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Y'all Y'all PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Y'all | you | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | *Sentence 3:* Which modal is she using? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:3 # text = Which modal is she using? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 modal modal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 using use 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 | **use** | present · progressive | which modal | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} all ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:o1:1 # text = all 1 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} me ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:o2:1 # text = me 1 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} should ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:o3:1 # text = should 1 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} told ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t9:o4:1 # text = told 1 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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. 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