Test 20 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

kids are saying Tom "never has lunch cos his family's broke". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids, Tom · What happens: say, not have, pass on · To what, where: lunch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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	3 saying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Tom	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 has	advmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 broke	mark
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 family	nmod:poss
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 broke	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 family	case
13	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 has	advcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 pass	compound:prt
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have in a quote	present	Tom	lunch	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient
3	pass on	infinitive	kids not said here	lunch	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

Yes, and ask him loudly why his family can't pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	obj
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 ask	advmod
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 pay	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pay	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pay	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 pay	advmod
12	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he			loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not pay not said to happen	can	his family						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, it's just the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 truth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 truth	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 truth	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 truth	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, everyone should know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 know	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, tell a teacher quietly so he gets help without embarrassment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	3 tell	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 gets	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	advcl
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obj
11	without	without	ADP	_	12 embarrassment	case
12	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher			quietly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	get	present	teacher	help				without embarrassment	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus

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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