Test 9 · ★ · Greeting neighbours and new people

forgot the neighbours name and she just said hi to me

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: neighbours, she · What happens: forget, name, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 name	nsubj
4	name	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 forgot	parataxis
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 forgot	conj
9	hi	hi	INTJ	_	8 said	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	forget	past			tree rules
2	name	present	the neighbours		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	she	me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient

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

Walk away fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk away	imperative	you not said here					away, fast property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry, could you tell me your name again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here				sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	could	you	your name	me	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic
3	name		your					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Call her lady

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	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4

Pretend you know it and say hi back without using any name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretend	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretend	conj
7	hi	hi	INTJ	_	6 say	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 using	mark
10	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	advcl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	know	present	you	it	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	say back speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=Topic
4	use	gerund	you not said here	any name	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient

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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