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Test 1 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

A girl in Florida forgot the new teacher's name after one minute. What is the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, new teacher, best thing · What happens: forget, name, be, do · To what, where: name

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 123 «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 girl in Florida forgot the new teacher's name after one minute.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teacher	amod
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 teacher	case
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 minute	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 minute	nummod
13	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	a girl in Florida	the new teacher's name			minute		tree rules
2	name		the new teacher						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 is the best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Hope the teacher never asks her anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hope	obj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 asks	advmod
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hope	advcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 anything	nmod:poss
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 asks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present		the teacher					tree rules
2	not ask speech: ask	present		anything					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Politely ask the teacher to tell her the name again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Politely	politely	ADV	_	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ask	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 name	det
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the teacher			politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the name	teacher		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient name=Topic

Option 3

Ask a friend to make up a name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 make	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a friend				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make up not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a name					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme name=Pivot

Option 4

Call the teacher "Miss" for the rest of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Miss	punct
5	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Call	parataxis
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Miss	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the teacher				for the rest of the year	tree rules

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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