Test 10 · ★ · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

kid in my class stammers, takes ages to talk. should i finish his words to help

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, i · What happens: stammer, take, talk, finish, help, word · To what, where: ages, words

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 227 «Respect for first peoples, older people and people with disabilities» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stammers	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 class	nmod:poss
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
5	stammers	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 takes	punct
7	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stammers	conj
8	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 takes	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ages	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stammers	punct
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 finish	aux
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 finish	nsubj
14	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stammers	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 words	nmod:poss
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 finish	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 help	mark
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 finish	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stammer speech: other	present	kid in my class		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	kid in my class not said here	ages	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	talk	to-infinitive	kid in my class not said here	ages not said here	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	finish	should	i	kid's words	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector word=Eventuality
5	help	to-infinitive	i not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	word		kid		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, and say them louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obj
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 2

Yes, it saves him time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 saves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saves	nsubj
4	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saves	obj
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saves	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	it	him = he			time		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Only if you guess right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 guess	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 guess	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
4	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guess	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	present	you					right property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, wait patiently and let him finish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	3 wait	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 let	cc
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	him = he		tree rules
3	finish	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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