Test 18 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry

apparently the bus driver cried cos no one ever says thanks, my brother's mate saw it, is that real

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bus driver, one, mate · What happens: cry, say, see, be · To what, where: thanks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 126 «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	5 cried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
3	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driver	compound
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 says	mark
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 says	advmod
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	advcl
11	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brother	nmod:poss
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mate	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 brother	case
16	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 real	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 real	cop
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 real	mark
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cried	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the bus driver			apparently property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	no one		ever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	my brother's mate	thanks			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	present	the bus driver not said here			real property	tree rules

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

Bus drivers don't need any thanks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drivers	compound
2	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 thanks	det
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Bus drivers	any thanks					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thanks=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Maybe or maybe not, but saying thanks to the driver is kind anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	13 kind	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 not	cc
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	4 not	advmod
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Maybe	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 kind	cc
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 kind	csubj
8	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saying	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 driver	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 driver	det
11	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thanks	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
13	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 kind	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		thanks	the driver				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic to driver=Recipient
2	is	present	saying					anyway, kind, maybe property	tree rules

Option 3

It must be true, a mate saw it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mate	det
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	It					true property	tree rules
2	see	past	a mate	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only adults should thank the bus driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 adults	advmod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thank	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	aux
4	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 driver	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driver	compound
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	should	adults		the bus driver				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Theme

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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