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Test 6 · Sweets, change and a friend's toy

Year 3 girl, upset: «that's MY pencil case, I lost it!» What should the boy who took it do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, I, boy · What happens: be, lose, take, do · To what, where: pencil case, case

This is test 6 of lesson 338 «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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: Year 3 girl, upset: «that's MY pencil case, I lost it!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Year	flat
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 upset	punct
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 case	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 case	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 case	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 case	cop
10	MY	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 case	nmod:poss
11	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 case	compound
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 girl	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 case	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	MY pencil case					tree rules
2	lose in a quote	past	I	case					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 boy who took it do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	obj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the boy	case					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	do	should	the boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Give it back, say sorry and maybe add a pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 add	cc
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	9 add	advmod
9	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pen	det
11	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 add	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give back	imperative	you not said here	it					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: apologize	infinitive	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a pen				maybe property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Throw it back into lost property

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 property	case
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 property	amod
6	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw back	imperative	you not said here	it				into lost property result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into property=Result
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Say he bought it in a shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bought	nsubj
3	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bought	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shop	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shop	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	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	buy	past	he	it		a shop			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Keep it, because finders keepers

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keepers	punct
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 keepers	case
5	finders	finder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keepers	compound
6	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				because finders keepers	vn keep-15.2 «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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