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Test 3 · ★★ · When you want what others have

«he gave me his ball, i didn't even hit him, just told him to». Is that a fair way to get it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, i · What happens: give, not hit, tell, be, get · To what, where: ball, me, him, fair way, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 353 «When you want what others have» 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: «he gave me his ball, i didn't even hit him, just told him to».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ball	nmod:poss
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hit	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hit	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 hit	advmod
12	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hit	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 told	advmod
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	16 told	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	past	he	his ball	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ball=Theme
2	not hit in a quote	past · do-support	i	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	i not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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: Is that a fair way to get it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 way	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair way					tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive		way					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only if he's younger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 younger	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 younger	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 younger	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 younger	cop
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					young property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if you don't hit him, it's just talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hit	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 hit	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hit	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hit	advmod
7	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hit	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talking	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 talking	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 talking	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 talking	advmod
13	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit	present · do-support	you	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	talk	present · progressive	it						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, scaring someone into giving is bullying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 scaring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 scaring	punct
3	scaring	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bullying	csubj
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 scaring	obj
5	into	into	SCONJ	_	6 giving	mark
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 scaring	advcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bullying	aux
8	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	gerund		someone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
2	give	gerund							vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	bully	present · progressive	scaring						vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, if the ball is old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 old	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ball					old property	tree rules

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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