Test 11 · ★ · Honest work at school

mate wants to copy my maths hw

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: want, copy · To what, where: maths hw

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 201 «Honest work at school» 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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 copy	mark
4	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hw	nmod:poss
6	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hw	compound
7	hw	hw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	mate						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	copy not said to happen	to-infinitive	mate not said here	my maths hw					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hw=Theme

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

Give him all the answers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 answers	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answers	det
5	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	all answers	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient answer=Theme

Option 2

Let him copy, it's being kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kind	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 kind	cop
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he		tree rules
2	copy	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it		kind property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Explain it to him instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Explain	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Explain	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Explain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it	him = he			instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Copy his English homework back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 homework	nmod:poss
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 homework	compound
4	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Copy	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	his English homework					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=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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