Mum, reading the record: «20 mins? You can't even tell me who's in the story.» What should the boy do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, You, boy · What happens: read, not tell, be, do · To what, where: record, me, story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 of lesson 341 «Cheating in games and sports» 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, reading the record: «20 mins?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Mum
mum
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 reading
nsubj
2
,
,
PUNCT
_
3 reading
punct
3
reading
read
VERB
Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part
root
root
4
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
5 record
det
5
record
record
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 reading
obj
6
:
:
PUNCT
_
9 mins
punct
7
«
«
PUNCT
_
9 mins
punct
8
20
20
NUM
NumForm=Digit NumType=Card
9 mins
nummod
9
mins
minute
NOUN
Abbr=Yes Number=Plur
3 reading
conj
10
?
?
PUNCT
_
3 reading
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
read
gerund
Mum
the record
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Topic
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: You can't even tell me who's in the story.»
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
have
past
the story
no people
it
vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
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.