Test 17 · ★ · Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and q…

library dude shushed us lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: library dude · What happens: shush · To what, where: us

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 297 «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dude	compound
2	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shushed	nsubj
3	shushed	shush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shushed	obj
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 shushed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shush	past	library dude	us					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent we=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Be louder, it's a free country and you can talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 louder	cop
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 country	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 country	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 country	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 louder	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 talk	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 talk	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 talk	aux
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 louder	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		loud property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a free country		tree rules
3	talk	can	you			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Leave and come back louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 come	cc
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	infinitive	you not said here					loud property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Be quiet; others are reading and studying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 quiet	cop
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 reading	punct
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reading	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reading	aux
6	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 quiet	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 studying	cc
8	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 reading	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here	quiet property	tree rules
2	read	present · progressive	others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	study	gerund	others not said here		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Laugh at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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