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Test 2 · ★ · Closed doors, whispers and secrets

Overheard through the door: «...the hospital...» Then silence. What's the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: best thing · What happens: overhear, be, do · To what, where: door

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 35 «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» 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: Overheard through the door: «...the hospital...»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 hospital	advcl
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Overheard	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Overheard	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 hospital	punct
7	...	...	PUNCT	_	9 hospital	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hospital	det
9	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	...	...	PUNCT	_	9 hospital	punct
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 hospital	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	participle				the door			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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: Then silence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 silence	advmod
2	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 silence	punct

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

Sentence 3: What's the best thing to do?

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 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Keep listening until you hear more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 hear	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	listen	gerund	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	hear	present	you	more					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

Option 2

Panic and tell everyone someone is dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Panic	panic	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Panic	conj
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 tell	iobj
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 dying	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dying	aux
7	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	panic	imperative	you not said here						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
3	die	present · progressive	someone						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Pretend you heard nothing and worry alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretend	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 heard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 worry	cc
6	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nothing	conj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	hear	past	you	nothing				alone property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ask Mum calmly later if everything's OK

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
3	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Ask	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 OK	mark
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 OK	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 OK	cop
8	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		Mum			calmly, late property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	everything					ok property	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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