Test 12 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

my mate's vegan, can i sneak some ham in her sandwich as a joke

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: sneak · To what, where: ham, sandwich

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sneak	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mate	case
4	vegan	vegan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mate	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mate	punct
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sneak	aux
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sneak	nsubj
8	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 ham	det
10	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sneak	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sandwich	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sandwich	nmod:poss
13	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sneak	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 joke	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sneak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak	can	my mate	some ham		mate's sandwich		as a joke	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ham=Theme in sandwich=Trajectory

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, a little bit of ham won't matter to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 matter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 matter	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ham	case
7	ham	ham	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
8	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 matter	advmod
10	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	future	a little bit of ham		her = she				vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to she=Experiencer

Option 2

Yes, if you tell her afterwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	you		her = she			afterwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, never trick her into eating meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 trick	advmod
4	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trick	obj
6	into	into	SCONJ	_	7 eating	mark
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 trick	advcl
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trick	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	eat	gerund	you not said here	meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 4

Only if she is very hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hungry	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					hungry property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/t12/