Test 22 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house

visiting a friend, you overhear her parents arguing and her dad says "maybe we should just split up". she goes quiet. what's kind?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, parents, dad, we, friend · What happens: visit, overhear, argue, say, split up, go · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 22 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 overhear	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 visiting	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 visiting	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 overhear	nsubj
6	overhear	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 goes	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 arguing	nsubj
9	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 overhear	ccomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dad	nmod:poss
12	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 overhear	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 split	punct
15	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	19 split	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 split	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 split	aux
18	just	just	ADV	_	19 split	advmod
19	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 says	ccomp
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 split	compound:prt
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 split	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 overhear	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 goes	nsubj
24	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 goes	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 goes	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 kind	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 kind	cop
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 goes	parataxis
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund	you not said here	a friend		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
2	overhear	present	you			tree rules
3	argue speech: disagree	gerund	friend's parents			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	present	friend's dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	split up in a quote	should	we		maybe property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	present	friend		quiet property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	present			kind 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

Ask her loudly if her parents hate each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hate	mark
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hate	nsubj
7	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	advcl
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 hate	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she			loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	hate a condition, not said to happen	present	her parents	each					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't ask for details or tell anyone; be a friend, and she can talk to a trusted adult

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 details	case
5	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	conj
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 tell	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 friend	punct
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 friend	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talk	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 talk	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talk	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 talk	aux
17	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 adult	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 adult	det
20	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 adult	amod
21	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative · do-support	you not said here			for details	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		anyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
3	is a	infinitive		a friend			tree rules
4	talk	can	friend			to a trusted adult	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-Agent
5	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tell everyone at school tomorrow so they're nice to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
5	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl:unmarked
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 nice	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nice	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nice	cop
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 nice	obl

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

Option 4

Laugh it off, grown-ups never mean it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Laugh	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mean	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	laugh off	imperative	you not said here	it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not mean	present	grown ups	it	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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