Test 19 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

they're saying Jack's left home alone every night cos his mum doesn't care, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, night, mum · What happens: say, co, not care, pass on · To what, where: left home, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saying	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 home	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Jack	case
6	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 home	amod
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saying	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 home	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cos	nsubj
11	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 care	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 care	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 care	advmod
16	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cos	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pass	punct
18	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pass	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they	Jack's left home	tree rules
2	co	present	every night		tree rules
3	not care	present · do-support	Jack's mum		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	pass on	infinitive	they not said here	home	vn send-11.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Pass it on, since everyone already knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knows	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 knows	mark
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 knows	nsubj
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 knows	advmod
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	know	present	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Pass it on, and add that he has no food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 add	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 add	cc
6	add	add	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 add	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 food	det
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	add speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	have	present	he	no food	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; it is unkind and you do not know their story

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 unkind	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unkind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unkind	cop
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unkind	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 story	nmod:poss
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pass on	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it		unkind property	tree rules
3	not know	present · do-support	you	their story		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 4

Pass it on, so a teacher hears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hears	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 hears	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hears	nsubj
8	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	hear	present	a teacher						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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