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Test 7 · ★★ · Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation

Your friend is scared: «Next door shouts every night and the kid cries a lot.» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Next door, kid, you · What happens: be, shout, cry, do · To what, where: lot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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: Your friend is scared: «Next door shouts every night and the kid cries a lot.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 shouts	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 shouts	punct
7	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouts	nsubj
9	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	parataxis
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouts	obl:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cries	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kid	det
14	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cries	nsubj
15	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 shouts	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lot	det
17	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cries	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your friend					scared property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express in a quote	present	Next door				night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express in a quote	present	the kid	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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: What should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tell everyone in class what you heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 heard	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past 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		everyone	class			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hear	past	you						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult about your worry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 worry	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 worry	nmod:poss
7	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult			about your worry	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about worry=Topic
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	worry		your						nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Shout back at the neighbours yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Shout	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 neighbours	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neighbours	det
5	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shout	obl
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Shout	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout back speech: express	imperative	you not said here	yourself		the neighbours			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Say nothing, it's none of your business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 none	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 none	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 none	cop
6	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	1 Say	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 business	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 business	nmod:poss
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 none	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	is a	present	it	none				of your business	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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