Test 6 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair
A new kid says «You can totally trust me» every few minutes but took your pen and didn't give it back. What is wise?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid, You · What happens: say, trust, take, not give back, be · To what, where: new kid, pen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A new kid says «You can totally trust me» every few minutes but took your pen and didn't give it back.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 trust | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 trust | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 trust | aux |
| 8 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 9 trust | advmod |
| 9 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 trust | obj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 trust | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 minutes | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 minutes | amod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trust | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 trust | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pen | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 give | advmod |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | obj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 give | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a new kid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | can | You | a new kid = kid | minute | totally property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 3 | take | past | You not said here | your pen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not give back | past · do-support | You not said here | pen | vn give-13.1 «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.
Sentence 2: What is wise?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wise | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wise | cop |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Never speak to anyone new again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 speak | advmod |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 anyone | case |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 speak | obl |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anyone | amod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | again | to anyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent |
Option 2
Ask him to say it louder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ask | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | it | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Trust him fully because he said so many times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Trust | obj |
| 3 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 1 Trust | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Trust | parataxis |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | imperative | you not said here | him = he | fully property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | he | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Judge him by what he does, not what he says
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Judge | judge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Judge | obj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 does | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 does | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 does | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Judge | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 what | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 what | advmod |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Judge | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent he=Value | ||||
| 2 | do | present | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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