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Test 6 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

A new girl's name is Siobhan, and you are not sure how to say it. What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: name, you, new girl · What happens: be, not be, say, name, do · To what, where: Siobhan, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 new girl's name is Siobhan, and you are not sure how to say it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 girl	case
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Siobhan	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Siobhan	cop
7	Siobhan	Siobhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sure	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sure	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sure	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sure	cop
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sure	advmod
13	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Siobhan	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 say	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sure	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Siobhan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a new girl's name	Siobhan					tree rules
2	not is	present	you					sure property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	name		a new girl						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 should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask her how to say it and try your best

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
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 best	nmod:poss
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 try	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
3	try	infinitive	you not said here	your best					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality

Option 2

Spell it out loud letter by letter every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spell	spell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spell	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Spell	compound:prt
4	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Spell	advmod
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spell	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 letter	case
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 letter	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell out	imperative	you not said here	it			time	loud property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme letter=Manner
2	letter		letter						nom letter «communication transitive»: by=agent

Option 3

Call her "Sarah", since it is close enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sarah	punct
4	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Call	parataxis
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Sarah	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 close	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 close	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 close	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 close	cop
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Call	advcl
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 close	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	her = she					tree rules
2	is	present	it					close, enough property	tree rules

Option 4

Never use her name to avoid a mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 use	advmod
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avoid	mark
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mistake	det
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not use	imperative	you not said here	her name					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	avoid	to-infinitive	you not said here	a mistake					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mistake=Location
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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