Test 2 · ★ · At the friend's home: what to say to the parents

«nobody said take shoes off so I kept 'em on» What would have been better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: say, take off, keep, be · To what, where: shoes, 'em · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «At the friend's home: what to say to the parents» of the Chinese street 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	advcl
10	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	17 better	case
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 on	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 better	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 better	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 better	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 better	cop
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 kept	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	nobody			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take off in a quote	infinitive		shoes		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
3	keep in a quote	past	nobody	'em = they		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	is	would · perfect			good property	tree rules

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Carry your shoes in with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shoes	nmod:poss
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Carry	obj
4	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 you	case
5	with	with	ADP	_	4 in	fixed
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	your shoes				in you	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shoe=Value in you=Location

Option 2

Take off your socks too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Take	compound:prt
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 socks	nmod:poss
4	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	imperative	you not said here	your socks					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Take them off anyway and wear the slippers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Take	compound:prt
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wear	cc
6	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 slippers	det
8	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	imperative	you not said here	them = they				anyway property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	wear	infinitive	you not said here	the slippers					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme

Option 4

Keep them on, nobody asked you, so it's totally fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asked	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fine	expl
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
12	totally	totally	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep on	imperative	you not said here	them = they			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	nobody		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	is	present	you not said here			fine, totally 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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