Test 11 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

old mr jones next door, havent seen him in ages

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: havent · What happens: see · To what, where: him, ages

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jones	amod
2	mr	mr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jones	compound
3	jones	jone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 door	amod
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jones	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 havent	punct
7	havent	havent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jones	conj
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 havent	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seen	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 ages	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	participle	havent not said here	him = he			in ages		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up, he might need help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grown	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	parataxis
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
2	need	might	he	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 2

Post a note and do nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Post	post	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 note	det
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Post	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 do	cc
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Post	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 do	obj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	imperative	you not said here	a note					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
2	do	present	you not said here	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 3

He's probably on holiday, forget it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holiday	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 holiday	cop
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 holiday	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 holiday	case
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
7	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 holiday	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forget	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			holiday		probably property	tree rules
2	forget	infinitive		holiday					tree rules

Option 4

Climb in his window to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 window	nmod:poss
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 check	mark
6	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here			his window			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Trajectory
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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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