Test 21 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play

classmate: "if you don't ask Mia out you're a loser, everyone's counting on it" — what's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, everyone, classmate · What happens: not ask, be, count · To what, where: Mia, loser · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 21 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 right	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 ask	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ask	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 ask	advmod
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 classmate	parataxis
9	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 Mia	compound:prt
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 loser	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 loser	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 loser	det
14	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Mia	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 counting	punct
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 counting	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 counting	aux
18	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ask	ccomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 counting	obl
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 counting	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 right	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 right	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 right	cop
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	Mia		Mia		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Mia	a loser			tree rules
3	count in a quote	present · progressive	everyone			on classmate	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on it=Theme
4	is	present	classmate			right property	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

Tease Mia so they stop asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tease	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tease	advcl
6	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tease	imperative	you not said here	Mia	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mia=Patient
2	stop	present	they		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	they not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pay someone to ask her for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Pay	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ask	mark
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pay	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	iobj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	someone					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	you not said here		her = she			for you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You don't have to; do what feels right for you, not what others push

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	4 have	xcomp
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 feels	nsubj
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	ccomp
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feels	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 right	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 have	conj
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 push	nsubj
17	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not have	present · do-support	You		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	do	infinitive	You not said here		tree rules
3	feel	present		right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	push	present	others		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ask her, because everyone is counting on you and you can't let them down

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 counting	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 counting	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 counting	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 counting	aux
7	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 counting	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 let	nsubj
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	count	present · progressive	everyone			on you	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on you=Theme
3	not let down	can	you	them = they			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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