Test 15 · ★ · More greetings and making introductions

someone online says they're 10 and asks where i live

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, they, i · What happens: say, be, ask, live · To what, where: 10 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 125 «More greetings and making introductions» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 says	nsubj
2	online	online	ADV	_	3 says	advmod
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 10	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 10	cop
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 says	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asks	cc
8	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	conj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 live	advmod
10	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 live	nsubj
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	someone		online property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	they	10		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	present	someone not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	live	present	i			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Send a photo of your house instead, so you don't have to type it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 photo	det
3	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Send	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 photo	nmod
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Send	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Send	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 type	mark
15	type	type	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 type	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	a photo of your house	instead property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme
2	not have	present · do-support	you			tree rules
3	type	to-infinitive	you not said here	photo		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Tell them, kids are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is	present	kids					safe property	tree rules

Option 3

Tell only your town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 town	advmod
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 town	nmod:poss
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	your town					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent town=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Don't tell, people online may not be who they say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	advmod
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 be	punct
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 be	nsubj
6	online	online	ADV	_	5 people	advmod
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 be	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	cop
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 say	nsubj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	infinitive						say property	tree rules

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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