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Test 5 · ★★★ · Breaking things and hiding the pieces

Friend's mum on the phone: «My son says the crack wasn't there before he lent it.» What helps most now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, crack, son · What happens: say, not be, lend, help · To what, where: crack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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: Friend's mum on the phone: «My son says the crack wasn't there before he lent it.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Friend	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 phone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
9	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crack	det
13	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 there	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 there	advmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 says	ccomp
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 lent	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lent	nsubj
19	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lent	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Friend's mum on the phone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	past	the crack					there property	tree rules
3	lend in a quote	past	son	crack					vn give-13.1 «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.

Sentence 2: What helps most now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 now	advmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 helps	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present					now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Say her son 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	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	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	her son	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Hang up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry, tell the truth and offer to pay

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 offer	cc
8	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 pay	mark
10	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 offer	xcomp

#	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	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	offer	infinitive	you not said here						tree rules
4	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stick to the story and say nothing more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 story	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stick	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	Stick to the story	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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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