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Test 4 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

A girl's hamster dies, and her uncle offers to buy an identical one tomorrow so she will not notice. What is TRUE?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hamster, uncle · What happens: die, offer, buy, not notice, be · To what, where: identical one

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl's hamster dies, and her uncle offers to buy an identical one tomorrow so she will not notice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hamster	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dies	nsubj
5	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 offers	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 offers	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 uncle	nmod:poss
9	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offers	nsubj
10	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dies	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 buy	mark
12	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 offers	xcomp
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	obj
16	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buy	obl:unmarked
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 notice	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 notice	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 notice	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 notice	advmod
21	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 buy	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	a girl's hamster						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	offer	present	hamster's uncle						tree rules
3	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	hamster's uncle not said here	a identical one			tomorrow		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	not notice	future	hamster						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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.

Sentence 2: What is TRUE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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	_	3 TRUE	punct

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

The options

Option 1

She should not be sad about a small animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sad	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sad	cop
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 animal	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	should	She					about a small animal; sad property	tree rules

Option 2

It is best to forget pets as fast as possible

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 best	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 forget	mark
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 best	csubj
6	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 forget	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 possible	mark
10	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules
2	forget	to-infinitive		pets				fast property	tree rules

Option 3

An identical hamster is just the same as the old one, so she will not need to grieve

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hamster	det
2	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hamster	amod
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 same	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 same	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 need	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 need	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 need	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 need	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 need	advmod
17	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 same	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 grieve	mark
19	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a identical hamster					as the old one; same property	tree rules
2	not need	future	hamster						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	grieve not said to happen	to-infinitive	hamster not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

She needs time to grieve; a new pet will not replace the old one

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 grieve	mark
5	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 time	acl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 replace	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pet	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pet	amod
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replace	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 replace	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 replace	advmod
12	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 needs	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replace	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	She				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	grieve	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	not replace	future	a new pet	the old one					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme

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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