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Test 8 · ★★ · Confession, prayer and making amends at church

«said my prayers, Mum» but you didn't. Mum: «What did you pray for, love?» Best move?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, my · What happens: say, not do, pray · To what, where: prayers, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: «said my prayers, Mum» but you didn't.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 prayers	nmod:poss
4	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mum	punct
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prayers	conj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 did	advmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		my prayers and Mum					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic
2	not do	past	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pray in a quote		my						nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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.

Sentence 2: Mum: «What did you pray for, love?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
4	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pray	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pray	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pray	nsubj
7	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mum	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 love	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pray	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray in a quote	past · do-support	you	Mum				for love	tree rules

Sentence 3: Best move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 move	amod
2	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 move	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Make one up fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Make	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Make	compound:prt
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	imperative	you not said here	one				fast property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Pivot

Option 2

Say it's private between you and God

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=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 private	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 private	cop
4	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	ccomp
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 private	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 God	cc
8	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 you	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					between you; private property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pretend to fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 fall	mark
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Pretend	xcomp
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	to-infinitive						asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Own up and say a short prayer with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Own	own	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Own	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Own	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prayer	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prayer	amod
7	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own up	imperative	you not said here						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a short prayer				with her = she	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme with she=Manner

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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