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Test 7 · ★ · Respect for first peoples, older people and people with di…

A boy keeps finishing his friend's sentences because his friend stammers. Why is that unhelpful?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, friend, that · What happens: keep, finish, stammer, sentence, be · To what, where: sentences

This is test 7 · ★ 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: A boy keeps finishing his friend's sentences because his friend stammers.

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	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	finishing	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sentences	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 friend	case
8	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 finishing	obj
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 stammers	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friend	nmod:poss
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stammers	nsubj
12	stammers	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a boy						tree rules
2	finish	gerund	a boy not said here	boy's friend's sentences					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sentence=Eventuality
3	stammer speech: other	present	boy's friend						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sentence		boy's friend						nom sentence «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.

Sentence 2: Why is that unhelpful?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 unhelpful	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unhelpful	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 unhelpful	nsubj
4	unhelpful	unhelpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 unhelpful	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It saves his friend from embarrassment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saves	nsubj
2	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 embarrassment	case
6	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	It	his friend		embarrassment			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent friend=Theme from embarrassment=Source

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His friend knows what he wants to say and needs time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wants	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 knows	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wants	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 needs	cc
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wants	conj
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	His friend						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	want	present	friend						tree rules
3	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	friend not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	need	present	friend not said here				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

It is the best way to help stammering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 help	mark
7	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	stammering	stammer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the best way					tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	stammer speech: other	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It makes his friend speak more clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 clearly	advmod
7	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	5 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	his friend					tree rules
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	his friend not said here					clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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