Test 18 · ★★ · A guest at the table, and manners on the phone

apparently Aisha's not eating at lunch cos of Ramadan, everyone's saying she's starving herself lol

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Aisha, everyone · What happens: not eat, say, starve · To what, where: lunch cos, Aisha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	5 eating	advmod
2	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 eating	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eating	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eating	advmod
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 cos	case
7	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cos	compound
8	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ramadan	case
10	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cos	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 saying	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	aux
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 eating	conj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 starving	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 starving	aux
17	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 saying	ccomp
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 starving	obj
19	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 eating	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · progressive	Aisha		lunch cos of Ramadan	apparently property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	starve	present · progressive	Aisha	Aisha			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

Offer her food every single day until she gives up and eats with everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	ADP	_	3 food	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 food	nmod:poss
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gives	obl
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gives	obl:unmarked
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 gives	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gives	nsubj
9	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 gives	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eats	cc
12	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gives	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 everyone	case
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present	she				day	offer her food	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	she not said here					with everyone	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Spread it, it's funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Spread	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 funny	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Spread	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't spread it; fasting in Ramadan is her family's faith, so be kind

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 fasting	punct
6	fasting	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 faith	csubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Ramadan	case
8	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fasting	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 faith	cop
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 faith	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 family	case
13	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kind	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 kind	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 kind	cop
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	fast	gerund			Ramadan		tree rules
3	is a	present	fasting	Ramadan's family's faith			tree rules
4	is	infinitive	you not said here			kind property	tree rules

Option 4

Tell a teacher she's starving herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 starving	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 starving	aux
6	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 starving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	starve	present · progressive	teacher	teacher					tree rules

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