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Test 8 · ★★ · Going where you're not allowed

Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy». What's the wise thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, wise thing · What happens: use, be · To what, where: big knife

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 349 «Going where you're not allowed» 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: Girl: «I'll just use the big knife, Mum's busy».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 use	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 use	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 use	advmod
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Girl	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 knife	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	amod
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 busy	punct
12	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 busy	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Mum	case
14	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	acl:relcl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use in a quote	future	I	the big knife					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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's the wise thing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wise thing						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Use it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Use	obj
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	it				quickly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Use the bread knife instead without asking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 knife	det
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knife	compound
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Use	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Use	advmod
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 asking	mark
7	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Use	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	the bread knife				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Use it with her eyes closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Use	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Use	obl
6	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eyes	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	imperative	you not said here	it				with her eyes	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	close	participle		her eyes not said here					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wait and ask Mum to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 ask	cc
3	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ask	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ask	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		Mum				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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