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Test 7 · ★ · Covering up, false alarms and playing fair

A girl twists her ankle doing a forbidden trick on the trampoline and is scared of being told off. What should she tell the doctor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, ankle · What happens: twist, do, forbid, be, tell off, tell · To what, where: ankle, forbidden trick, trampoline, doctor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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 girl twists her ankle doing a forbidden trick on the trampoline and is scared of being told off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twists	nsubj
3	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ankle	nmod:poss
5	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twists	obj
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ankle	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 trick	det
8	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 trick	amod
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 trampoline	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trampoline	det
12	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trick	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 scared	cc
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 scared	cop
15	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 twists	conj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 told	aux:pass
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 scared	advcl
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 told	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 twists	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	present	a girl	girl's ankle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme
2	do	gerund	girl's ankle not said here	a forbidden trick		the trampoline			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality
3	forbid	participle							vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	is	present	a girl not said here					scared property	tree rules
5	tell off speech: assert	gerund · passive	a girl not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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 should she tell the doctor?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	girl	the doctor					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient doctor=Topic

The options

Option 1

A story about tripping on the stairs at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	4 tripping	mark
4	tripping	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 story	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tripping	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 home	case
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tripping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	gerund	a story not said here			the stairs		at home	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stair=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The truth, because the doctor needs it to treat her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 truth	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needs	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 needs	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doctor	det
6	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needs	nsubj
7	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 needs	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 treat	mark
10	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needs	advcl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 treat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the truth	doctor					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	treat	to-infinitive	the truth not said here		truth				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3

Whatever her friend tells her to say, so nobody gets in trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 her	det:predet
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tells	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gets	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 gets	advmod
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 trouble	case
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	her friend		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	her friend not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	nobody			trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, doctors can guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 guess	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	can	doctors						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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