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Test 7 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy hall. What helps most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: want, tell, help · To what, where: joke, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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: You want to tell a joke to a friend with a hearing aid in a noisy hall.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 friend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 aid	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 aid	det
12	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 aid	compound
13	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hall	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hall	det
16	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hall	amod
17	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 aid	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here	a joke	a friend			with a hearing aid in a noisy hall	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Topic to friend=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.

Sentence 2: What helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Write nothing down and just hope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Write	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Write	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 hope	advmod
6	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Write	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write down	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	hope	present	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Face them and speak clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Face	face	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Face	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 speak	cc
4	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Face	conj
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination
2	speak speech: other	present	you not said here					clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Shout to them from across the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obl
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 hall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here		them = they	the hall			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient

Option 4

Whisper it behind their back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whisper	whisper	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 it	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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