Test 11 · Greeting friends and relatives

auntie says look how much uve grown!! what do i even say

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: auntie, much uve, i · What happens: say, look, grow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 122 «Greeting friends and relatives» 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	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	parataxis
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 uve	amod
6	uve	uve	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grown	nsubj
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 look	ccomp
8	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 say	obj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
13	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	auntie	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look	present		tree rules
3	grow	participle	much uve	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present · do-support	i	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her it's rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rude	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	it					rude property	tree rules

Option 2

Say nothing and walk off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walk	cc
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 walk	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	walk off	infinitive	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Smile and say thank you or I know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thank	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 say	cc
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Smile	conj
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 know	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	smile	infinitive			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank	present		you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	know	present	I		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Say she has grown too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grown	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grown	aux
4	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Say	ccomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow	present · perfect	she						vn appear-48.1.1 «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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