Test 12 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

cant say the new girls name right

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cant, new girls · What happens: say, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girls	amod
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 name	nsubj
6	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
7	right	right	ADV	_	6 name	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	cant						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	name	present	the new girls					right property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Just say it any way you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	obj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl:unmarked
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				any way obl:unmarked	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	like	present	you	any way not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme

Option 2

Give her an easier nickname

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 nickname	det
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nickname	amod
5	nickname	nickname	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	a easier nickname	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nickname=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask her how to say it

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	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive		it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Avoid saying her name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Avoid	xcomp
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 name	nmod:poss
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here		vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	her name	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
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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