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Test 6 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…

A girl's classmates call her names every day and say she will be in trouble if she tells. Which is the best step?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: classmates, girl · What happens: call, say, be, tell, name · To what, where: names, trouble, best step · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 classmates call her names every day and say she will be in trouble if she tells.

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 classmates	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 girl	case
4	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 names	nmod:poss
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 call	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obl:unmarked
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 say	cc
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 call	conj
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 trouble	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 trouble	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 trouble	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 trouble	case
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	ccomp
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 tells	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tells	nsubj
19	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 trouble	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	a girl's classmates	girl's names			day		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	a girl's classmates not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	future	girl			trouble			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	girl						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	name		girl						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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: Which is the best step?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 step	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 step	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 step	amod
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 step	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult, like a teacher or parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 teacher	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 teacher	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 parent	cc
10	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult			like a teacher or parent	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Call them names back, louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 louder	punct
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Call	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call back speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme name=Result

Option 3

Stay home from school without saying why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Stay	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 saying	mark
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stay	advcl
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			school		home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Keep it secret until the end of the year, when the class changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	until	until	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 changes	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 changes	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 class	det
13	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changes	nsubj
14	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it			until the end of the year	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	change	present	the class						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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