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Test 9 · ★★ · When you want what others have

«cousin's been to Disneyland AGAIN, i'm sick of hearing about it». What's the wiser feeling to aim for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, i, wiser feeling · What happens: be, hear, aim

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: «cousin's been to Disneyland AGAIN, i'm sick of hearing about it».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Disneyland	punct
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Disneyland	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Disneyland	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 Disneyland	cop
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Disneyland	case
6	Disneyland	Disneyland	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	6 Disneyland	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sick	punct
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sick	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sick	cop
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Disneyland	parataxis
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 hearing	mark
13	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sick	advcl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hearing	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 hearing	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Disneyland	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	cousin				again	to Disneyland	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	i					sick property	tree rules
3	hear in a quote	gerund	i not said here					about cousin	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

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 wiser feeling to aim for?

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 feeling	det
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 feeling	amod
5	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 aim	mark
7	aim	aim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 feeling	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	7 aim	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wiser feeling						tree rules
2	aim	to-infinitive	the wiser feeling not said here						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1

Make up a better holiday to tell him about at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Make	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 holiday	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 holiday	amod
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	about	about	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	imperative	you not said here	a better holiday					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme holiday=Pivot
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		him = he			about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2

Tell him it sounds boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sounds	nsubj
4	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	sound	present	it					boring property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Stop talking to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	talk	gerund	you not said here		him = he				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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

Be glad for him and ask about the best part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 glad	cop
2	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 glad	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ask	cc
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 glad	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 part	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 part	amod
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					for him = he; glad property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here					about the best part	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about part=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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