Test 14 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

mate wants me to say he was with me yesterday, he wasnt

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, me · What happens: want, say, be, wasnt · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 277 «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 me	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 me	cop
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	ccomp
10	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wasnt	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wasnt	nsubj
13	wasnt	wasnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	mate	me			tree rules
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here		yesterday		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	mate			with me	tree rules
4	wasnt		mate				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 · ← Mova's choice

Say yes if he gives you sweets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Say	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 gives	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	give a condition, not said to happen	present	he	sweets	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sweet=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say no kindly, lying can let harm go on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
5	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 let	csubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	parataxis
8	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lie	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	let	can	lying	harm		tree rules
4	go on	infinitive	harm not said here			vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Say yes but cross your fingers behind your back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Say	obj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 cross	cc
4	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fingers	nmod:poss
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obj
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	cross	infinitive	you not said here	your fingers		your back			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

Option 4

Say yes, that's what friends do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 what	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Say	ccomp
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	is a	present	that	tree rules
3	do	present	friends	vn act-114-1 «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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