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Test 7 · Teasing and laughing at others

Sister, upset: «I'm not reading to you any more, you said I'm stupid». What helps most?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, you · What happens: not read, say, be, help · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 346 «Teasing and laughing at others» 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: Sister, upset: «I'm not reading to you any more, you said I'm stupid».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 upset	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 upset	punct
3	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 reading	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 reading	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 reading	nsubj
7	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reading	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 reading	advmod
9	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 upset	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 reading	obl
12	any	any	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 reading	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 upset	conj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 stupid	nsubj
18	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stupid	cop
19	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 stupid	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 upset	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read in a quote	present · progressive	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	I					stupid property	tree rules

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?

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	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Read for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Read	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here					for her = she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Say she is a bit slow at reading

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	6 slow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slow	obl:unmarked
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 reading	case
8	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slow	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			reading		a bit obl:unmarked; slow property	tree rules

Option 3

Ignore her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

Say sorry and help her read slowly

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 help	cc
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 read	advmod

#	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	help	infinitive	you not said here	her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	read	infinitive	her = she not said here					slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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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