Test 12 · Greeting adults and teachers

lol i called my teacher mum in front of everyone

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: call · To what, where: teacher mum, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 called	discourse
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mum	compound
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	i		my teacher mum	front of everyone			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 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

Apologise every day for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apologise	apologise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Apologise	obl:unmarked
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Apologise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here				day; week		tree rules

Option 2

Pretend you didn't say it all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	you	it			year		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Run out of the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 room	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			the room			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Laugh it off and carry on, it happens to almost everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Laugh	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 carry	cc
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 carry	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happens	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happens	nsubj
9	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 everyone	advmod
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh off	imperative	you not said here	it		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	carry on	infinitive	you not said here			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	happen	present	it		to everyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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