Test 9 · ★ · Rumours and gossip

someone said school's shut tmrw, its true right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: say · To what, where: shut tmrw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tmrw	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 school	case
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tmrw	amod
6	tmrw	tmrw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 right	nmod:poss
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 right	amod
10	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tmrw	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone	school's shut tmrw					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tmrw=Topic

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

Yes, stay home to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	7 safe	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					safe property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, tell everyone you know so that nobody turns up by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 tell	iobj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
6	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 everyone	acl:relcl
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 turns	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 turns	compound:prt
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 mistake	case
13	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn up	present	nobody		by mistake	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mistake=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Check with a teacher, the school website or your parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 teacher	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Check	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 website	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 website	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 website	compound
8	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teacher	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 parents	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parents	nmod:poss
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here					with a teacher and the school website or your parents	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, everyone's saying it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 saying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 saying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	aux
5	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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