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Test 6 · ★ · Excuses and the lies that grow

Dinner lady, sharp: «Them peas didn't eat themselves, love». What should the girl do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Them, girl · What happens: not eat, do · To what, where: peas

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 337 «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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: Dinner lady, sharp: «Them peas didn't eat themselves, love».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lady	compound
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sharp	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sharp	punct
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
7	Them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 eat	nsubj
8	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Them	nmod:unmarked
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sharp	parataxis
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 eat	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	vocative
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sharp	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat in a quote	past · do-support	Them = they	peas = pea				love vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

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 should the girl do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	the girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say a friend took them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	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	take	past	a friend	them = they					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry and try a bite of each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 try	cc
4	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bite	det
6	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 try	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	try	infinitive	you not said here	a bite of each					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Eventuality

Option 3

Say the peas fell on the floor

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 peas	det
3	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl

#	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	fall	past	the peas			the floor			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

Option 4

Say she's allergic to peas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allergic	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allergic	cop
4	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 peas	case
6	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allergic	obl

#	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
2	is	present	she					to peas; allergic property	tree rules

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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