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Test 7 · ★ · More greetings and making introductions

Your teacher keeps saying the new girl's name wrongly and she looks unhappy. What could you do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, new girl, you · What happens: keep, say, look, name, do · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your teacher keeps saying the new girl's name wrongly and she looks unhappy.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 girl	case
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
10	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	4 saying	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looks	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looks	nsubj
13	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	conj
14	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looks	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Your teacher						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Your teacher not said here	the new girl's name				wrongly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
3	look	present	teacher					unhappy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	name		the 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 could 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	could	could	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	could	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Laugh with the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 class	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					with the class	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell the girl to change her name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 change	mark
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
2	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	girl's name					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	name		girl						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Gently tell the teacher the right way to say it, or help her to say it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gently	gently	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 way	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 help	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 help	cc
13	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 help	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the right way	the teacher			gently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient way=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here	way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	help	infinitive	you not said here	teacher					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	teacher not said here	way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Say it wrongly too, so that the girl slowly gets used to the new way of saying it

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 gets	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gets	nsubj
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 gets	advmod
11	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 used	aux:pass
12	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Say	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 way	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl
17	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 saying	mark
18	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 way	acl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				wrongly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	use	present · passive						to the new way	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the new way not said here	way					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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