read my mate's note about me and it said I'm annoying. I'm gutted. What's the lesson?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, note, I, mate, lesson · What happens: read, say, be, note, gut · To what, where: note, I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 of lesson 356 «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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: read my mate's note about me and it said I'm annoying.
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic
2
sayspeech: assert
past
note
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3
is
present
I
annoying property
tree rules
4
note
my mate
nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent
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.
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
Option 4
Your mate should hide notes better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Your
your
PRON
Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs
2 mate
nmod:poss
2
mate
mate
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 hide
nsubj
3
should
should
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
4 hide
aux
4
hide
hide
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
root
root
5
notes
notes
ADV
_
4 hide
advmod
6
better
good
ADJ
Degree=Cmp
4 hide
xcomp
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
hide
should
Your mate
good, notes property
vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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.