Test 11 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

mate's drawing is meh and she's gonna enter it in the contest

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: drawing, she, mate · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: contest

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 196 «White lies and kind silence» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawing	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 mate	case
3	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meh	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 meh	cop
5	meh	meh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 enter	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enter	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 enter	cop
9	gonna	gonna	PART	_	10 enter	mark
10	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meh	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 enter	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 contest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 contest	det
14	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 enter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	mate's drawing		meh property	tree rules
2	is	present	she	the contest	enter property	tree rules
3	draw		mate			nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Give honest, gentle tips to help her improve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tips	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tips	amod
5	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 help	obj
9	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	honest gentle tips	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Theme
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here	her = she	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	improve	infinitive	her = she not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Tell her it's terrible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 terrible	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 terrible	cop
5	terrible	terrible	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		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	it					terrible property	tree rules

Option 3

Tell her it's perfect so she feels good when she enters it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 perfect	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 perfect	cop
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 feels	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feels	nsubj
8	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feels	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 enters	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 enters	nsubj
12	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feels	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 enters	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	present	it			perfect property	tree rules
3	feel	present	she			good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	enter	present	she	it			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

Option 4

Say nothing and laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 laugh	cc
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	laugh	present	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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