Test 12 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

my mates crying, says the team lost cos of her, it wasnt tho

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mates, team · What happens: cry, say, lose, wasnt · To what, where: cos · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mates	nmod:poss
2	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crying	nsubj
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 crying	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 team	det
7	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
9	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cos	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wasnt	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wasnt	nsubj
14	wasnt	wasnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl
15	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	my mates		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose	past	the team	cos of her	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent co=Eventuality
4	wasnt		team		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 · ✓ the right answer

Tell her the truth kindly: it wasn't your fault

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 fault	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fault	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fault	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fault	advmod
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fault	nmod:poss
11	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth	her = she			kindly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient truth=Topic
2	not is a	past	truth	your fault					tree rules

Option 2

Say nothing at all

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	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 nothing	nmod

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

Option 3

Agree it was her fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fault	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Agree	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	imperative	you not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	her fault					tree rules

Option 4

Tell her to stop crying because the game doesn't matter anyway

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	to	to	PART	_	4 stop	mark
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 matter	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 matter	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 matter	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 matter	advmod
11	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	advcl
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	11 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	gerund	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not matter	present · do-support	the game		anyway property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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