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Test 5 · ★ · Speaking up is bravery too

big lads nicking Year 3s' crisps every day. Lily tells the dinner lady. Kieran: «snitch». Who's right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big lads, Lily, Kieran · What happens: nick, tell, snitch, be · To what, where: crisps, dinner lady · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 368 «Speaking up is bravery too» 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: big lads nicking Year 3s' crisps every day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lads	amod
2	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	nicking	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 lads	acl
4	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 3s	compound
5	3s	3	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crisps	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 3s	case
7	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 nicking	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicking	obl:unmarked
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	gerund	big lads not said here	Year 3s's crisps			day		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient

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: Lily tells the dinner lady.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lady	det
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lady	compound
5	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Lily		the dinner lady				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient

Sentence 3: Kieran: «snitch».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 snitch	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 snitch	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 snitch	punct
4	snitch	snitch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 snitch	punct
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 snitch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snitch speech: other in a quote	infinitive	Kieran						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 4: Who's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The big lads, because it's only a few crisps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lads	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lads	amod
3	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crisps	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 crisps	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 crisps	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 crisps	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 crisps	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 crisps	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 crisps	amod
11	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a few crisps					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Kieran, you should never tell on anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kieran	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 anybody	case
8	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	should	Kieran			anybody			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nobody, because crisps don't really matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 matter	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 matter	mark
4	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 matter	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 matter	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 matter	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 matter	advmod
8	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nobody	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	crisps						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Lily, she's protecting the little ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 protecting	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lily	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 protecting	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 protecting	aux
5	protecting	protect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protecting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	present · progressive	Lily	the little ones				Lily vocative	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Beneficiary

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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