Test 16 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

didnt get the lesson but everyone else did, pretend?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: get, do, pretend · To what, where: didnt

This is test 16 · ★ 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	didnt	didnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 did	nsubj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 everyone	advmod
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 get	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pretend	punct
10	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 get	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	present		didnt	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus
2	do	past	everyone		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pretend	infinitive			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

Copy a friend's work instead and say nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Copy	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Copy	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 say	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	a friend's work		instead property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing	all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	work		a friend				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say you don't understand, the teacher will help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 understand	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not understand	present · do-support	you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	help	future	the teacher	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Stay home the next day so you miss the next lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl:unmarked
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 miss	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 miss	nsubj
8	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stay	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lesson	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lesson	amod
11	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				day	home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	miss	present	you	the next lesson					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lesson=Stimulus

Option 4

Pretend and hope it makes sense later on by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 makes	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hope	cc
3	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pretend	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hope	obj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	5 makes	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	present	Pretend not said here	it					tree rules
2	make on	present	Pretend	sense				by sense; late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

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