Test 15 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

kids say the boy who's fostered "must've done something bad to get taken". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, boy · What happens: say, foster, do, take, pass on · To what, where: boy, something, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fostered	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fostered	aux:pass
7	fostered	foster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 boy	acl:relcl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 fostered	punct
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
10	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 say	ccomp
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 done	obj
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod
14	to	to	PART	_	16 taken	mark
15	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 done	advcl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	19 pass	compound:prt
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	foster	present · passive		the boy	tree rules
3	do in a quote	must · perfect	the boy	something	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	take in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	the boy not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»
5	pass on	infinitive		it	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, but only in the group chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 chat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 chat	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 chat	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 chat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chat	det
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chat	compound
8	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's cruel and untrue; his story is his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cruel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cruel	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cruel	cop
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 untrue	cc
7	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cruel	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 own	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 story	nmod:poss
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 own	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 own	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cruel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	cruel property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	is	present	his story	own property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and ask him what he did

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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, everyone's curious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 curious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 curious	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 curious	cop
5	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	everyone					curious property	tree rules

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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