Test 15 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

mate asks if his drawing's good, it's kinda meh

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, drawing · What happens: ask, be, draw

This is test 15 · ★ 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	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 good	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 drawing	nmod:poss
5	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	nsubj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 drawing	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 asks	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kinda	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kinda	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kinda	cop
11	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 good	conj
12	meh	meh	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	mate		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	drawing	kinda 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

Rip it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rip	rip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rip	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Rip	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Laugh at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			it			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Say it's the worst ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worst	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worst	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 worst	det
5	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Say	ccomp
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 worst	advmod

#	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 that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it				ever	bad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say something kind and true, like a part you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Say	obj
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 something	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 true	cc
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 part	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 part	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 part	det
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 like	nsubj
11	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 part	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	something					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	like	present	you	a part not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme

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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