Test 17 · ★ · Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted

my sister says a kid skipped maths to hang out behind the gym and "the whole school was searched, police and everything". what's the true bit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, kid · What happens: say, skip, hang out, search, be · To what, where: maths, gym, whole school, true bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 315 «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kid	det
5	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skipped	nsubj
6	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 skipped	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hang	mark
9	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 skipped	xcomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 hang	compound:prt
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 gym	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gym	det
13	gym	gym	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hang	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 searched	cc
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 searched	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 school	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 school	amod
18	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 searched	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 searched	aux:pass
20	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gym	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 police	punct
22	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gym	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 everything	cc
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 gym	conj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 everything	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 bit	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bit	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bit	det
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bit	amod
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	skip	past	a kid	maths		tree rules
3	hang out	to-infinitive	a kid not said here		the gym and police	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind gym=Location
4	search in a quote	past · passive		the whole school		vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location
5	is a	present		the true bit		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

Skip it, no one will ever notice one kid gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Skip	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 notice	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 notice	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 notice	advmod
8	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Skip	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 kid	nummod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 notice	obj
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 notice	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	skip	imperative	you not said here	it		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	notice	future	no one	one kid	ever	tree rules
3	go	participle	one kid not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Skipping is fine if you come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skipping	skipping	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Skipping					fine property	tree rules
2	come back a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Police come for every late child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 child	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 child	det
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Police					for every late child	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Staff must treat a missing child as an emergency, so never skip class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treat	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 treat	aux
3	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treat	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 emergency	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 emergency	det
9	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 skip	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 skip	advmod
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 skip	advmod
13	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 treat	parataxis
14	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 skip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	treat	must	Staff	a missing child				as a emergency	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent child=Theme as emergency=Attribute
2	not skip	infinitive		class					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=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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