Test 10 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

wanna ask the teacher smth but it's a dumb question prob

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, smth · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: teacher smth, dumb question prob

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 256 «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 ask	dep
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smth	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smth	compound
5	smth	smth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 prob	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 prob	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 prob	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 prob	det
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prob	amod
11	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prob	compound
12	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the teacher smth					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent smth=Recipient
2	is a	present	smth	a dumb question prob					tree rules

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

Ask a friend to ask for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 ask	mark
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a friend				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					for you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Wait till next year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	till	till	ADV	_	1 Wait	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 year	amod
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				year	till property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask it, teachers like questions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
4	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	parataxis
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		it				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	like	present	teachers	questions					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot question=Theme

Option 4

Don't ask, it's silly and everyone will laugh at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ask	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 silly	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 silly	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 silly	cop
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ask	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laugh	cc
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 laugh	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	aux
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 silly	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative · do-support	you not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it	silly property	tree rules
3	laugh	future	everyone	at you	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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