Test 14 · ★ · Birthday parties

everyone at lunch talking bout my party, sam's not invited

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lunch · What happens: talk, not invite · To what, where: everyone sam

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 sam	compound
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 lunch	case
3	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 everyone	nmod
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 lunch	acl
5	bout	bout	ADP	_	7 party	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 party	nmod:poss
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 everyone	punct
9	sam	sam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 invited	nsubj:pass
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 invited	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 invited	advmod
12	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund	lunch not said here					bout my party	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not invite	present · passive		everyone sam					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

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

Show him the invitation

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Show	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 invitation	det
4	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	imperative	you not said here	the invitation	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient invitation=Topic

Option 2

Tell him he can't come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not come	can	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Talk about it later, he could feel left out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Talk	obl
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Talk	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 feel	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	aux
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Talk	conj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 feel	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 left	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here	about it; late property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	feel	could	he		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	leave out	participle	he not said here		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Talk louder so he hears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Talk	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 hears	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hears	nsubj
5	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Talk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					loud property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present	he						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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