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Test 8 · ★ · White lies and kind silence

A new boy brings rice and fish for lunch that smells strong to you. What is the kind choice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy, lunch, kind choice · What happens: bring, smell, be · To what, where: rice

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A new boy brings rice and fish for lunch that smells strong to you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	nsubj
4	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brings	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fish	cc
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rice	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 lunch	case
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 smells	nsubj
11	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lunch	acl:relcl
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smells	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 strong	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	a new boy	rice and fish for lunch					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rice=Theme
2	smell	present	lunch					strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: What is the kind choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind choice						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Tell the teacher the smell is a problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 problem	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 problem	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 problem	det
8	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	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		the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	is a	present	the smell	a problem					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ask him loudly why he eats such strange food instead of sandwiches

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	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 eats	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	parataxis
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 sandwiches	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he			loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	eat	present	he	such strange food				instead sandwiches	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

Warn the others to sit far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 others	det
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Warn	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Warn	ccomp
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	imperative	you not said here	the others					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit	to-infinitive						away property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say nothing about it, since families eat different foods

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	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nothing	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
7	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foods	amod
10	foods	food	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing				about it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	eat	present	families	different foods					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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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