Test 15 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

my mate's been super quiet for days and won't eat lunch

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: be, not eat · To what, where: lunch

This is test 15 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quiet	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 quiet	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 quiet	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quiet	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eat	cc
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 eat	advmod
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quiet	conj
13	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my mate				day	quiet, super property	tree rules
2	not eat	future	my mate not said here	lunch					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient

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

Ignore it, it will go away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ignore	parataxis
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go away	future	it					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask if she is okay and tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 okay	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 okay	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 okay	cop
5	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
9	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 adult	amod
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	she		okay property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tell everyone so they all ask her what is wrong with 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 ask	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ask	nsubj
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 wrong	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ask	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	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	ask speech: ask	present	they	her = she		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	is	present			with her = she; wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

Leave her, it is not your business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 business	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 business	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 business	advmod
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 business	nmod:poss
8	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	not is a	present	it	your business					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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