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Test 4 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares

A boy says «I'll only be your friend if you nick a chocolate bar». What does this tell you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, you, this · What happens: say, be, nick, tell · To what, where: friend, chocolate bar, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 284 «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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 boy says «I'll only be your friend if you nick a chocolate bar».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 friend	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 friend	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 friend	aux
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 friend	advmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 friend	cop
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 nick	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 nick	nsubj
13	nick	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bar	det
15	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bar	compound
16	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nick	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 nick	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	future	a boy = boy	your friend					tree rules
3	nick a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a chocolate bar					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=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 does this tell you?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	this		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is a good friend testing you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 friend	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 friend	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friend	amod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 friend	acl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 testing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a good friend					tree rules
2	test	gerund	a good friend not said here	you					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

It is fine if the shop is big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 big	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 big	cop
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the shop					big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He is pressuring you to steal; say no and leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressuring	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pressuring	aux
3	pressuring	pressure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 pressuring	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 steal	mark
6	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pressuring	advcl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pressuring	parataxis
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 say	discourse
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leave	cc
11	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 say	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pressure	present · progressive	He		you				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	steal	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	leave	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Taking small things isn't really stealing, so it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stealing	csubj
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stealing	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 stealing	advmod
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 stealing	advmod
7	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fine	expl
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stealing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		small things					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
2	not is	present	Taking					steal property	tree rules
3	is	present	Taking not said here					fine property	tree rules

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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