Test 15 · Greeting friends and relatives

my cousin always tickles me even when i say stop

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, i · What happens: tickle, say, stop · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tickles	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 tickles	advmod
4	tickles	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tickles	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 say	advmod
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tickles	advcl
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tickle	present	my cousin	me	always property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	i			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop	infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Tickle him harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tickle	tickle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tickle	obj
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Tickle	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	imperative	you not said here	him = he				hard property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer

Option 2

Keep laughing so he stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 stops	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	you not said here	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	he	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say stop clearly and tell an adult, your no counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	aux
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 stop	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 counts	punct
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 counts	nmod:poss
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 counts	det
11	counts	count	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 adult	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop							clearly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult and your counts				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Never visit again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 visit	advmod
2	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not visit	imperative	you not said here				again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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