Test 4 · ★ · The lunchroom and school trips
Your friend keeps saying she is not hungry and never has lunch. What is the best thing to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, best thing · What happens: keep, say, not be, not have, be, do · To what, where: lunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 258 «The lunchroom and school trips» 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 friend keeps saying she is not hungry and never has lunch.
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 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hungry | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hungry | advmod |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 has | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 has | advmod |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hungry | conj |
| 12 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Your friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Your friend not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | friend | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not have | present | friend not said here | lunch | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient |
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 best 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 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 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 best thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the best thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Quietly tell a teacher so the school can help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 2 tell | advmod |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tell | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 school | det |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 help | aux |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a teacher | quietly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 2 | help | can | the school | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Tell everyone in your class so they can share
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 class | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 class | nmod:poss |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 share | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 share | aux |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | everyone | your class | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | share | can | they | tree rules |
Option 3
Ask her parents yourself at the gate in front of everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Ask | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 everyone | case |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 front | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | yourself | her parents | the gate | in front of everyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
Option 4
Ignore it, because it is not your business
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ignore | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 business | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 business | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 business | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 business | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 business | advmod |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 business | nmod:poss |
| 9 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignore | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | imperative | you not said here | it | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | it | your business | tree rules |
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