Test 15 · ★ · Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and te…

kids say the new boy "talks funny, he's from nowhere". pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, new boy, boy · What happens: say, talk, be, pass on · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 333 «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 boy	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talks	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
7	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
8	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 talks	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nowhere	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nowhere	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nowhere	cop
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 nowhere	case
13	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 talks	advmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 nowhere	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct
16	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pass	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	16 pass	compound:prt
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk in a quote	present	the new boy		funny property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	boy		nowhere property	tree rules
4	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, it's just a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 joke	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, and copy his accent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	his accent					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme
2	accent		his = he						nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he talks funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 talks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 talks	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talks	nsubj
4	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	he					funny property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, speaking more than one language is a skill; don't mock it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 skill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 speaking	punct
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 skill	csubj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 one	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 language	nummod
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speaking	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 skill	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 skill	det
10	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 mock	punct
12	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 mock	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 mock	advmod
14	mock	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 skill	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mock	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		one language	tree rules
2	is a	present	speaking	a skill	tree rules
3	not mock	infinitive · do-support	speaking not said here	language	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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