Test 18 · ★ · Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight

kids say Josh is "a titch, he'll never grow". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, Josh · What happens: say, be, not grow, pass on · To what, where: titch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 290 «Water, small injuries, hay fever, growing up and eyesight» 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	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 titch	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 titch	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 titch	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 titch	det
7	titch	titch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grow	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 grow	advmod
12	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 titch	parataxis
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 titch	punct
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pass	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 pass	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Josh	a titch	tree rules
3	not grow in a quote	future	Josh		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass on	infinitive		titch	vn send-11.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he'll find it funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 find	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 find	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	future	he	it				funny property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Yes, and measure him in front of everyone at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 measure	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 measure	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 measure	cc
4	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 measure	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 measure	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 front	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 lunch	case
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	imperative	you not said here	him = he		front of everyone			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=Value

Option 3

Yes, it's just true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 true	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 true	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 true	advmod
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					true property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, everyone grows at their own pace; that's unkind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grows	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 grows	nsubj
4	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 pace	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pace	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pace	amod
8	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grows	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 unkind	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 unkind	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 unkind	cop
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	everyone					at their own pace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location
2	is	present	that					unkind 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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