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Test 3 · ★ · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

Your grandma keeps telling the same story about her garden. What is the kind thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandma, kind thing · What happens: keep, tell, be, do · To what, where: same story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your grandma keeps telling the same story about her garden.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandma	nmod:poss
2	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 telling	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 garden	nmod:poss
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Your grandma						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Your grandma not said here	the same story				about grandma's garden	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about garden=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 is the kind thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the kind thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Tell her she is boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boring	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boring	cop
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	she					boring property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Listen kindly, as memory can weaken with age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Listen	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weaken	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 weaken	mark
5	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weaken	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 weaken	aux
7	weaken	weaken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Listen	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 age	case
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weaken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here					kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	weaken	can	memory				with age		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument

Option 3

Walk away while she is talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 talking	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talking	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 talking	aux
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	present · progressive	she						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Tell her to write it down instead, so she stops repeating it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 write	mark
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 write	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 write	compound:prt
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 write	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stops	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 stops	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stops	nsubj
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
12	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stops	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 repeating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	write down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it				instead property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	stop	present	she						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	repeat	gerund	she not said here	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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