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Test 10 · ★★ · Confession, prayer and making amends at church

Bored again after school, the same boys call round. What's the habit-changing choice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: same boys, changing choice · What happens: bore, call round, be, change

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 365 «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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: Bored again after school, the same boys call round.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 call	advcl
2	again	again	ADV	_	1 Bored	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bored	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boys	amod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 call	nsubj
9	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 call	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	participle	the same boys not said here				after school; again		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	call round speech: assert	present	the same boys					round property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What's the habit-changing choice?

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	7 choice	det
4	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changing	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 habit	punct
6	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 choice	amod
7	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the changing choice						tree rules
2	change	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Go with them, but stay at the back of the group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 stay	cc
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 back	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 group	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 group	det
12	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					with them = they	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here			the back of the group			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location

Option 2

Go along but don't throw anything yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	along	along	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 throw	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 throw	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 throw	advmod
6	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 throw	obj
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go along	imperative	you not said here					along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not throw	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	anything				yourself obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Hide indoors and tell Mum that you're ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	1 Hide	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 ill	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 ill	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ill	cop
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here					indoors property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		Mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
3	is	present	you					ill property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Go to football club or do something else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 club	case
3	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 club	compound
4	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 do	cc
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 do	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			football club			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to club=Initial_Location
2	do	infinitive	you not said here	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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