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Test 5 · ★ · Police, courts and prison

Mum, after two weeks of jury service: "Can't tell you a thing about it, love." Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: not tell · To what, where: thing, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 30 «Police, courts and prison» 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: Mum, after two weeks of jury service: "Can't tell you a thing about it, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 weeks	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 weeks	nummod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mum	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 service	case
7	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 service	compound
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weeks	nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 tell	advmod
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thing	det
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thing	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 love	punct
20	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	vocative
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	can	Mum and two weeks of jury service	a thing	you			about thing; love vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It was too boring to talk about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 boring	advmod
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 boring	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	6 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					boring property	tree rules
2	talk about	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She was not really on a jury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 jury	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jury	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	7 jury	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 jury	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jury	det
7	jury	jury	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She			a jury			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Jurors must keep the case private

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jurors	juror	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 case	det
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	must	Jurors	the case				private property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Theme

Option 4

She has forgotten everything already

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgotten	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forgotten	aux
3	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 forgotten	obj
5	already	already	ADV	_	3 forgotten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present · perfect	She	everything					tree rules

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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