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Test 1 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up

A boy in Leeds is threatened: "Tell your mum and you're dead." What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, boy · What happens: threaten, tell, be, do · To what, where: boy, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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: A boy in Leeds is threatened: "Tell your mum and you're dead."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threatened	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 threatened	aux:pass
6	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 threatened	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
9	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 threatened	parataxis
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Tell	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dead	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 dead	nsubj
14	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tell	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	present · passive		a boy in Leeds					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			your mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	you					dead 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 should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell his mum or a teacher anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 teacher	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teacher	det
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	conj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

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

Option 2

Change schools without saying why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 schools	compound
2	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	without	without	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 schools	acl
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Change schools not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Keep the secret to stay safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 secret	det
3	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the secret					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	stay	to-infinitive	you not said here					safe property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Fight the bully the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bully	det
3	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fight	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fight	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here	the bully			day		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bully=Co-Agent

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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