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Test 2 · Little lies at home

Mum's text: «found the vase. your sister says it wasn't her. anything u want to tell me??» What is the wise reply?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: text, u, wise reply · What happens: find, say, not be, want, tell, be · To what, where: vase, sister, text · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 336 «Little lies at home» 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: Mum's text: «found the vase. your sister says it wasn't her. anything u want to tell me??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 text	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Mum	case
3	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 text	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vase	det
8	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 text	punct
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 her	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 her	cop
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 her	advmod
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 anything	punct
18	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 says	parataxis
19	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
20	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 anything	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 want	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	??	??	PUNCT	_	18 anything	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	Mum's text not said here	the vase					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mum's text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is a in a quote	past	text	sister					tree rules
4	want in a quote	present	u						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	u not said here		Mum's text = text				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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 the wise reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Say the cat did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	the cat	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Say nothing at all and hope it all blows over by tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 nothing	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
6	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blows	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hope	ccomp
10	over	over	ADP	_	9 blows	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 tomorrow	case
12	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blows	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	hope	present	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	blow over	present	it				tomorrow		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Say your sister is lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie	present · progressive	your sister						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Tell her it was your ball and say sorry to your sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ball	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ball	cop
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ball	nmod:poss
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sorry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	it	your ball					tree rules
3	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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