Test 15 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

going thru changes growing up, too embarrassed to ask anything

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: changes · What happens: go, grow up, ask · To what, where: changes, anything

This is test 15 · ★ 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	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 embarrassed	advcl
2	thru	through	ADP	Abbr=Yes	3 changes	case
3	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 going	obl
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 changes	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 growing	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 going	punct
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 embarrassed	advmod
8	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 ask	mark
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 embarrassed	advcl
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	gerund			changes	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through change=Initial_Location
2	grow up	gerund	changes not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		anything		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=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

Never ask anyone, just figure it all out on your own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 ask	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 figure	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 figure	advmod
6	figure	figure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 ask	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 figure	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 figure	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 own	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 own	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 figure	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		anyone				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	figure out	infinitive	you not said here	it		your own			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask a trusted adult or school nurse, it's normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	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 Ask	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nurse	cc
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nurse	compound
7	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 adult	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 normal	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 normal	cop
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult or school nurse		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	nurse		normal property	tree rules

Option 3

Hide it from everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it		everyone			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from everyone=Beneficiary

Option 4

Only ask online strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strangers	amod
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	online strangers					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient

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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