Test 12 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

do i hafta say please to my own mum, its just mum

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: say · To what, where: own mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» 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	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	hafta	hafta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	please	please	INTJ	_	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 mum	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mum	amod
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mum	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 mum	advmod
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mum	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	i		my own mum and hafta's mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent please=Topic to mum=Recipient

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

No, only say it to strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 strangers	case
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it	strangers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to stranger=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, please and thank you matter at home too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 thank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 please	punct
3	please	please	INTJ	_	1 Yes	discourse
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 thank	cc
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	obl
10	too	too	ADV	_	7 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	matter	present				home			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

No, family do not need manners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 family	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	family	manners					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot manners=Theme

Option 4

Only when you want something big, like a new bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 want	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 want	obj
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bike	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 bike	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bike	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bike	amod
11	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	you	something				like a new bike	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme

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