Test 10 · ★ · Rumours and gossip

heard Mia fancies Tom, gonna tell everyone

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: hear, fancy, tell · To what, where: Tom, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fancies	nsubj
3	fancies	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fancies	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 tell	dep
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 heard	conj
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	hear	past				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	fancy	present	Mia	Tom		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tom=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			everyone	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

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

Post it online first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Post	post	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Post	obj
3	online	online	ADV	_	1 Post	advmod
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Post	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	imperative	you not said here	it				first, online property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't pass it on, it can embarrass her badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 embarrass	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pass	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 embarrass	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 embarrass	aux
9	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 embarrass	obj
11	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 embarrass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pass on	infinitive · do-support		it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	embarrass	can	it	her = she				badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer

Option 3

Tell only half the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 half	advmod
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 class	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	half class					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient

Option 4

Tell everyone, it's just a bit of fun and he'll find out anyway

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bit	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bit	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bit	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 bit	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fun	case
10	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 find	compound:prt
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is a	present	it	a bit		of fun	tree rules
3	find out	future	he			anyway property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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