Test 13 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

aunt made fish, i hate fish, what do i say

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunt, i · What happens: make, hate, say · To what, where: fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 128 «A guest at the table, and manners on the phone» 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	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hate	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 aunt	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hate	punct
5	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 hate	nsubj
6	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
11	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fish	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	make	participle			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	hate	present	aunt and made fish	fish	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	i	fish	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Say nothing and push it off the plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 push	cc
4	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 plate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plate	det
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	push	infinitive	you not said here	it		the plate			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme off plate=Trajectory

Option 2

Pretend to be ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 ill	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 ill	cop
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					ill property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, thank you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 thank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj

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

Option 4

Yuck, I hate this

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yuck	yuck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hate	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yuck	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	I	this				Yuck vocative	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus

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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