Test 10 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

kid in a wheelchair, should i talk to his helper instead

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid · What happens: talk

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 wheelchair	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wheelchair	det
4	wheelchair	wheelchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 kid	punct
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 talk	nsubj
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 helper	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 helper	nmod:poss
11	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talk	obl
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	should	kid in a wheelchair					to kid's helper; instead property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to helper=Co-Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, talk to him directly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 talk	obl
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	3 talk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here		him = he			directly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yes, and speak extra slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 speak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 speak	cc
4	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	extra	extra	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					extra, slowly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only talk to him if he talks first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 talk	advmod
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talk	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 talks	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 talks	nsubj
7	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	advcl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 talks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
2	talk a condition, not said to happen	present	he					first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, the helper speaks for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 speaks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 helper	det
4	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaks	nsubj
5	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	the helper					for him = he	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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