Test 12 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

friend's gone quiet, not sure what's up

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quiet	nsubj
2	's	's	PART	_	1 friend	case
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	amod
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sure	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sure	advmod
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 up	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 up	cop
10	up	up	ADV	_	4 quiet	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						up 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 · ← Mova's choice

Guess and walk off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 walk	cc
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Guess	conj
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 walk	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	imperative	you not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	walk off	infinitive	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Ignore her until she talks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 talks	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 talks	nsubj
5	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	talk	present	she						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask kindly, are you okay?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 okay	punct
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 okay	cop
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 okay	nsubj
6	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					kindly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					okay property	tree rules

Option 4

Tell everyone she is angry

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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 angry	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is	present	she					angry property	tree rules

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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