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Test 8 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

Your friend is the shortest in class and is sad. What is true and kind to say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend · What happens: be, say · To what, where: class · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Your friend is the shortest in class and is sad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shortest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shortest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shortest	det
5	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 class	case
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shortest	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sad	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shortest	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shortest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your friend			class		short property	tree rules
2	is	present	Your friend not said here					sad property	tree rules

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 true and kind to say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kind	cc
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 true	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

You will be short forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 short	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 short	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 short	cop
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 short	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	You					forever, short property	tree rules

Option 2

Stand on tiptoes all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 tiptoes	case
3	tiptoes	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stand	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			tiptoes	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Everyone grows at their own pace, and you may grow later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 pace	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pace	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pace	amod
6	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grow	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 grow	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grow	aux
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grows	parataxis
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Everyone					at their own pace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location
2	grow	may	you					late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Eat more sweets to grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sweets	amod
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 grow	mark
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Eat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	more sweets					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient
2	grow	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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