Test 10 · ★★ · Your uh-oh feeling

man in a car asked me to help find his puppy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: ask, help, find · To what, where: me, puppy

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Your uh-oh feeling» 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	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 car	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 man	nmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asked	xcomp
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 puppy	nmod:poss
11	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	man in a car		me	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	man in a car not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	find not said to happen	infinitive	man in a car not said here	man's puppy		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic

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

Get in the car to look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 car	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here			the car			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say no and move away, adults ask adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 move	cc
4	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ask	nsubj
8	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	move away	infinitive	you not said here		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	present	adults	adults		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 3

Ask him to show you photos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 show	iobj
6	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	photos	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient photo=Topic

Option 4

Help him, he sounds sad and it's only a puppy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounds	nsubj
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Help	parataxis
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounds	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 puppy	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 puppy	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 puppy	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 puppy	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 puppy	det
12	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Help	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		him = he		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	sound	present	he			sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	present	it	a puppy			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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