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Test 11 · Sam is scared: fear is normal

Mum: «You've gone the long way round all week, love. Why?» Best answer for Sam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: go

This is test 11 of lesson 366 «Sam is scared: fear is normal» 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: Mum: «You've gone the long way round all week, love.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
4	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Mum	appos
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 round	obl:unmarked
10	round	round	ADV	_	6 gone	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 round	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 love	punct
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	vocative
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	You					love vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Why?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

Sentence 3: Best answer for Sam?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Sam	case
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answer	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Say nothing at all and quickly change the subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 nothing	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 change	cc
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 change	advmod
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 subject	det
9	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	change	infinitive	you not said here	the subject				quickly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2

Say the bus shelter is haunted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shelter	det
3	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shelter	compound
4	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 haunted	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 haunted	aux:pass
6	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Say	ccomp

#	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 clause=Topic
2	haunt	present · passive		the bus shelter					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 3

Say he likes walking further

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 likes	nsubj
3	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 likes	xcomp
5	further	further	ADV	_	4 walking	advmod

#	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 clause=Topic
2	like	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	walk not said to happen	gerund	he not said here					further property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell her about the boys at the bus shelter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 boys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 shelter	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shelter	det
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shelter	compound
9	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she	the bus shelter		about the boys	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about boy=Topic

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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