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Test 1 · ★ · Quiet places and solemn moments

A girl in Boston is in the library and wants to tell her friend a joke. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be, want, tell, do · To what, where: library, joke, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 224 «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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 girl in Boston is in the library and wants to tell her friend a joke.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 library	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Boston	case
4	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 library	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 library	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 library	det
8	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wants	cc
10	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 library	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wants	xcomp
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 library	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a girl in Boston			the library			tree rules
2	want	present	a girl in Boston not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	a girl in Boston not said here	a joke	girl's friend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient joke=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.

Sentence 2: What should she 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Write it on a library book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Write	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 book	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	it		a library book			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on book=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Whisper it, or wait until they are outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Whisper	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Whisper	conj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 outside	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 outside	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 outside	cop
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	they					outside property	tree rules

Option 3

Shout it across the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obj
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	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	it		the room			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Say it loudly, as it is funny and everyone will enjoy it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 funny	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 funny	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 funny	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 funny	cop
8	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 enjoy	cc
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 enjoy	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 enjoy	aux
12	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 funny	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 enjoy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it				loudly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules
3	enjoy	future	everyone	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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