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Test 6 · ★ · When grown-ups are tired or worried

Little brother: «If Mum says she's fine, she's fine, stop asking.» What's the better idea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little brother, Mum, better idea · What happens: say, be, stop, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 34 «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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: Little brother: «If Mum says she's fine, she's fine, stop asking.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 says	mark
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fine	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stop	punct
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	csubj
17	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 stop	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Little brother						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	Mum					fine property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Mum					fine property	tree rules
4	stop in a quote	infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: What's the better idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better idea						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Tell her she's lying to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie	present · progressive	she		you				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Keep asking until she tells you everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 tells	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 asking	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tells	iobj
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 tells	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	she	everything	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient everything=Topic

Option 3

Ignore her completely all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	1 Ignore	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she			day	completely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Don't push her, but stay close and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 push	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 push	advmod
3	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 push	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stay	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stay	cc
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 push	conj
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kind	cc
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 close	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not push	imperative · do-support	you not said here	her = she					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here					close property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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