Test 14 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

kids say the tall girl in year 5 "must be lying about her age". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, tall girl · What happens: say, lie, pass on · To what, where: age · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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	5 girl	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	nmod
8	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 year	flat
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 girl	punct
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lying	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lying	aux
12	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 say	ccomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 age	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 age	nmod:poss
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lying	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lying	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 pass	compound:prt
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie in a quote	must · progressive	the tall girl in year		about girl's age	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about age=Location
3	pass on	infinitive		age		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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and ask her mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her mum				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, it's funny and everyone's saying it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 funny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saying	cc
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 saying	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	aux
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 funny	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saying	obj
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 saying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					funny property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone	it				anyway property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, growing early or late is normal; don't spread it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 normal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 normal	csubj
4	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 growing	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 late	cc
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 early	conj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 normal	cop
8	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 spread	punct
10	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 spread	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 spread	advmod
12	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 normal	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 spread	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	gerund			early property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	growing		normal property	tree rules
3	not spread	infinitive · do-support	growing not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme

Option 4

Yes, she must be older

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 older	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 older	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 older	cop
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	she					old property	tree rules

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