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Test 4 · ★ · Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes

A boy in Sydney spilled juice on his friend's carpet. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: spill, do · To what, where: juice, carpet

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 222 «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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 Sydney spilled juice on his friend's carpet.

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	5 spilled	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	spilled	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	juice	juice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 carpet	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carpet	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 friend	case
11	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spilled	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spilled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	past	a boy in Sydney	juice		boy's friend's carpet			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location juice=Theme

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 the adult straight away and say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the adult			away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Cover the wet patch with a cushion so nobody sees it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 patch	det
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 patch	amod
4	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cushion	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cushion	det
7	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cover	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 sees	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 sees	nsubj
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cover	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	imperative	you not said here	the wet patch				with a cushion	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent patch=Destination with cushion=Theme
2	see	present	nobody	patch					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Leave quickly before it is found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Leave	advmod
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 found	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here					quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	present · passive		it					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

Blame his friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	his friend					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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