Test 12 · Remembering details

police asked how tall he was, dunno

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police, he · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: dunno · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asked	ccomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tall	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dunno	punct
8	dunno	dunno	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	police	dunno					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					tall 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

Make up a number

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Make	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 number	det
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	imperative	you not said here	a number					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme number=Pivot

Option 2

Say what your friend said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3

Say he was very tall just to be safe, police like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	parataxis
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tall	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	9 safe	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tall	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 police	punct
11	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tall	conj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 police	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	tall property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here	safe property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Compare him to someone you know, like dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Compare	compare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Compare	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 someone	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Compare	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 someone	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dad	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 dad	case
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Compare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	imperative	you not said here	him = he				to someone; like dad	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	know	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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