Test 14 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

new kid on our street talks funny, gonna laugh at him

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid · What happens: talk, laugh

This is test 14 · ★ 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	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talks	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 street	case
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 street	nmod:poss
5	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kid	nmod
6	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 talks	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laugh	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 laugh	dep
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 talks	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	new kid on our street					funny property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	infinitive						at kid	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Laugh, it's just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 joke	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 joke	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a joke					tree rules

Option 2

Tell everyone to avoid him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 avoid	mark
4	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	avoid	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location

Option 3

Copy his voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	his voice					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say hi instead, laughing at people hurts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hi	hi	INTJ	_	1 Say	obj
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laughing	punct
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hurts	csubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laughing	obl
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=Topic
2	laugh	gerund		at people	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	present	laughing		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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