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Test 8 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

A boy who has just come from Syria does not know how the school lunch line works. What helps most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, lunch line · What happens: come, not know, work, help · To what, where: Syria · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A boy who has just come from Syria does not know how the school lunch line works.

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	11 know	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 come	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 boy	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Syria	case
8	Syria	Syria	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 works	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 line	det
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lunch	compound
15	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 line	compound
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 works	nsubj
17	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	a boy			Syria			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from syria=Initial_Location
2	not know	present · do-support	a boy						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	work	present	the lunch line						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Telling him he should have known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 known	csubj:pass
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 known	nsubj:pass
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 known	aux
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	know	should · perfect · passive		he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Leaving him so he learns faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 learns	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leaving	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 learns	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learns	nsubj
5	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 learns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	learn	present	he					fast property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Showing him kindly what to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Showing	obj
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Showing	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Showing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		him = he				kindly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

Asking the teacher to move him to another class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 move	mark
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 move	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 class	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 class	det
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the teacher				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
2	move not said to happen	to-infinitive		teacher		another class			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to class=Trajectory

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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