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Test 10 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales

Teacher: «Why didn't you tell me sooner, Sam?» What's the most honest likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, honest likely reason · What happens: not tell, be · To what, where: Sam, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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: Teacher: «Why didn't you tell me sooner, Sam?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
4	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tell	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 tell	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Teacher	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 tell	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Sam	punct
12	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	you	Sam	me			soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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 most honest likely reason?

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 reason	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 honest	advmod
5	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
6	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reason	amod
7	reason	reason	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 honest likely reason						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He wanted the long walk home every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 walk	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 walk	amod
5	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	the long walk			day	home property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot walk=Theme

Option 2

He thought the teacher was busy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the teacher					busy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was scared of being called a grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 scared	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grass	det
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					scared property	tree rules
2	call	gerund · passive	He not said here	a grass					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

Option 4

He forgot for three weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 weeks	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 weeks	nummod
5	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He				week		tree rules

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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