Test 2 · ★ · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy

Why is it a problem to read someone's messages without asking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, read, ask · To what, where: problem, messages

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 problem	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 problem	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 problem	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 problem	det
5	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 problem	acl
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 messages	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 someone	case
10	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 read	obj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 asking	mark
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 read	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 problem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a problem	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive		someone's messages	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	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.

The options

Option 1

Messages are always boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boring	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 boring	advmod
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Messages					always, boring property	tree rules

Option 2

It uses up their phone battery

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	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 uses	compound:prt
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 battery	nmod:poss
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 battery	compound
6	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use up	present	It	their phone battery					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient

Option 3

You might learn something useful about them that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 learn	obj
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	obl
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	might	You	something				about them = they; that way obl:unmarked	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are private and it breaks trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 private	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 private	cop
3	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 breaks	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 breaks	nsubj
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 private	conj
7	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					private property	tree rules
2	break	present	it	trust					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient

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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