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Test 4 · Greeting adults and teachers

A woman you have never met says hello and asks you to help find her puppy. What do you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, woman · What happens: not meet, say, ask, help, find, do · To what, where: woman, hello, you, puppy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: A woman you have never met says hello and asks you to help find her puppy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 met	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 met	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 met	advmod
6	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 woman	acl:relcl
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asks	cc
10	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 asks	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asks	xcomp
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 help	xcomp
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 puppy	nmod:poss
16	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present · perfect	you	a woman not said here					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	a woman	hello					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	present	a woman not said here		you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	a woman not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find not said to happen	infinitive	a woman not said here	woman's puppy					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic

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.

Sentence 2: What do you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Help her for a few minutes and then come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 minutes	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 minutes	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 minutes	amod
6	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Help	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Help	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		her = she		minute		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
2	come back	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Go with her, because she was polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 polite	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 polite	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 polite	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 polite	cop
8	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					with her = she	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
2	is	past	she					polite property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not go with her, and tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 adult	amod
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative · do-support	you not said here					with her = she	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a trusted adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ask her name and then go with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 name	nmod:poss
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	her name					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	go	infinitive	you not said here				then	with her = she	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary
3	name		her = she						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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