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Test 9 · ★ · Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry

blurted «shut up» at Miss Ross, the whole class went «oooh». What now?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole class · What happens: blurt, shut up, go · To what, where: Miss Ross · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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: blurted «shut up» at Miss Ross, the whole class went «oooh».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blurted	blurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct
3	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 blurted	parataxis
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 shut	compound:prt
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 shut	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 Ross	case
7	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ross	compound
8	Ross	Ross	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 class	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 class	amod
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Ross	acl:relcl
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 oooh	punct
15	oooh	oooh	INTJ	_	13 went	discourse
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 oooh	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 blurted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blurt speech: other	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shut up in a quote	participle				Miss Ross			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the whole class	Miss Ross not said here					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ross=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: What now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Pretend it was someone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 someone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 someone	cop
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Pretend	xcomp
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 someone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is a	past	it	someone				else property	tree rules

Option 2

Walk out of class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	4 class	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	imperative	you not said here	class					vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry quickly and explain you were upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 explain	cc
5	explain	explain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 upset	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 upset	cop
8	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 explain	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					quickly, sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	explain speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	you					upset property	tree rules

Option 4

Say it again louder so you look tough in front of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Say	obj
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Say	ccomp
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
8	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	it			again		tree rules
2	look	present	you					in front of everyone; tough property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=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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