Test 16 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

someone at school keeps saying "your dad left cos he didn't love you" since your parents split up. what is it and what do you do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, dad, parents, you · What happens: keep, say, leave, not love, split up, be · To what, where: you, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 keeps	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 someone	nmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 love	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 love	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 love	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 love	advmod
14	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 left	advcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 love	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
17	since	since	SCONJ	_	20 split	mark
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 parents	nmod:poss
19	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 split	nsubj
20	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saying	ccomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 split	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 keeps	parataxis
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 it	cop
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 what	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 do	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 do	obj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 do	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 do	nsubj
30	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 what	conj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	present	someone		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	someone not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave in a quote	past	your dad		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not love in a quote	past · do-support	dad	you	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	split up	past	your parents		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present		school	tree rules
7	do	present · do-support	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Say something worse about his dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Say	obj
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 something	amod
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 dad	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	something				about his dad	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic

Option 2

Stop going to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	go	gerund	you not said here			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's bullying; it's not true and not your fault, so tell a trusted adult

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bullying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bullying	cop
3	bullying	bullying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 true	advmod
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bullying	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fault	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fault	advmod
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fault	nmod:poss
12	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bullying	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 adult	det
17	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 adult	amod
18	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	bullying			tree rules
2	not is	present	bullying			true property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	fault		your				nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It is true, so stay quiet and don't make any fuss about it at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 stay	advmod
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 make	advmod
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 fuss	det
13	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fuss	nmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			true property	tree rules
2	stay	infinitive				quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not make	infinitive · do-support		any fuss	all	about fuss	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fuss=Product

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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