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Test 10 · ★ · Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry

lollipop lady told the school about u and u had to write a letter. Is the letter enough?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lollipop lady, u · What happens: tell, have, write, be · To what, where: school, letter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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: lollipop lady told the school about u and u had to write a letter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lollipop	lollipop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lady	compound
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 school	det
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 u	case
7	u	u	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	u	u	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 write	mark
12	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 letter	det
14	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 write	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	lollipop lady	the school				about u	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent school=Recipient about u=Topic
2	have	past	u						tree rules
3	write	to-infinitive	u not said here	a letter					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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.

Sentence 2: Is the letter enough?

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	3 letter	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 letter	det
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 letter	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 letter	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Saying sorry to her face makes it complete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 makes	csubj
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Saying	xcomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 face	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 face	nmod:poss
5	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorry	obl
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	gerund						sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Saying	face				complete property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

She will not read it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 read	advmod
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	future	She	it				anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Yes, a letter is always enough and you never need to see her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 enough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 letter	det
4	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enough	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 enough	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 need	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 need	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 need	advmod
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 need	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a letter					always, enough property	tree rules
2	not need	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 4

No, you need to write ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 need	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	ten					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme

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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