Test 16 · Greeting adults and teachers

grown-up i dont know says hop in the car, ur mum sent me

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, hop · What happens: know, say, send · To what, where: grown, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 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	grown	grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 know	obl
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 up	punct
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 grown	compound:prt
4	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
5	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	6 know	obl
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 car	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 car	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hop	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
13	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mum	nmod:poss
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	nsubj
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	i	grown	dont obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send	past	hop in the car	me		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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

Get in, he knows your mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	advcl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	imperative	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	know	present	he	your mum					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus

Option 2

Ask him a password then get in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 password	det
4	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	advcl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a password	him = he				tree rules
2	get in	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Walk next to the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	next	next	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 car	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

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

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

Say no, get away and tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 get	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
9	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 adult	amod
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	get away	infinitive			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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