Test 19 · ★ · Classroom rules and homework

everyone's saying the new boy who speaks little English is dumb. pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, new boy, little English · What happens: say, speak, be, pass on · To what, where: new boy, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 254 «Classroom rules and homework» 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 speaks	nsubj
8	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	acl:relcl
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 English	amod
10	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dumb	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dumb	cop
12	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speaks	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pass	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 pass	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone	the new boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	speak speech: other	present	the new boy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	little English		dumb property	tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive	everyone not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, he's learning English; be patient and kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 learning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learning	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learning	aux
5	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 learning	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 patient	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 patient	cop
9	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 learning	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kind	cc
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 patient	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	present · progressive	he	English		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic
2	is	infinitive			patient property	tree rules
3	be					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, so the teacher moves him into a different class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 moves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 moves	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moves	nsubj
6	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 moves	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 class	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 class	det
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 class	amod
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	the teacher	him = he		a different class			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into class=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, he doesn't understand anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 understand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 understand	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 understand	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 understand	advmod
6	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	present · do-support	he	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, if it's true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 true	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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