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Test 1 · ★ · Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry

«dare ya to call the lollipop lady a old cow». What's the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, best answer · What happens: dare, call, be · To what, where: ya, lollipop lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 355 «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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: «dare ya to call the lollipop lady a old cow».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct
2	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 dare	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 call	mark
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 dare	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	compound
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cow	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare in a quote	imperative	you not said here	ya					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	call in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the lollipop lady				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=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: What's the best answer?

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 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	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 best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, a dare is a dare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, she keeps us safe; I'm not doing that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 keeps	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 keeps	obj
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keeps	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 doing	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 doing	advmod
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 keeps	advcl
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	she	us				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	not do	present · progressive	I	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 3

OK, quietly so she can't hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	OK	ok	INTJ	_	8 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 OK	punct
3	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 so	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 hear	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	she						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

OK, but only if you do the dare as well, straight after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	OK	ok	INTJ	_	7 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 do	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 after	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dare	det
9	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	7 do	advmod
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 as	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 after	punct
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 after	advmod
14	after	after	ADP	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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