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Test 8 · Dates, engagements and weddings

Uncle Dev keeps saying his jokes to the mirror and muttering "they'll hate it". How can you help?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uncle Dev, jokes, Dev, you · What happens: keep, say, mutter, hate, joke, help · To what, where: jokes, mirror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 13 «Dates, engagements and weddings» of the adult life 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: Uncle Dev keeps saying his jokes to the mirror and muttering "they'll hate it".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Dev	compound
2	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 jokes	nmod:poss
6	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saying	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mirror	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mirror	det
9	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 muttering	cc
11	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saying	conj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hate	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hate	nsubj
14	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hate	aux
15	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 muttering	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hate	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 hate	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Uncle Dev						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Uncle Dev not said here	Dev's jokes	the mirror				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Topic to mirror=Recipient
3	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Uncle Dev not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hate in a quote	future	jokes = joke	mirror					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	joke		Dev						nom joke «communication 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: How can you help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	you						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Hide his notes so he can't read them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 notes	nmod:poss
3	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 read	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 read	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 read	advmod
8	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hide	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	his notes					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient
2	not read	can	he	notes = note					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	note		his = he						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell him best men never speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 speak	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 speak	advmod
6	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not speak speech: other	present	best men						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tell him the speech will be terrible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 speech	det
4	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 terrible	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 terrible	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 terrible	cop
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	future	the speech					terrible property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Listen to his practice speech and laugh at the jokes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 speech	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 speech	nmod:poss
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speech	compound
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listen	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 laugh	cc
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Listen	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 jokes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jokes	det
10	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here					to his practice speech	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to speech=Theme
2	laugh	present	you not said here			the jokes			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak		his = he						nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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