Test 3 · Remembering details

Why can talking with friends about what you all saw be a problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, problem · What happens: talk, see, be · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 talking	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talking	aux
3	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 friends	case
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talking	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 friends	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 you	nmod:unmarked
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
11	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 problem	det
13	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 be	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 talking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	talk	can		friends	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
2	see	past	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	infinitive	a problem		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Memories can change to match what others say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 match	mark
5	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 change	advcl
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 match	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	change	can	Memories	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	match	to-infinitive	Memories not said here	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	others	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2

The police do not allow it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 police	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allow	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allow	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allow	advmod
5	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 allow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · do-support	the police	it					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 3

Friends always make up stories to sound more exciting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 make	compound:prt
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sound	mark
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 make	xcomp
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 exciting	advmod
9	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present	Friends	stories				always property	tree rules
2	sound	to-infinitive	stories not said here					exciting property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It makes everyone's memory perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 memory	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 everyone	case
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	everyone's memory				perfect property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material memory=Product

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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