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Test 7 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales

«she nicked my phone» — Lily's sobbing. «I'll get it back, I'll smack her», says Kieran. Wiser idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she, Lily, Kieran · What happens: nick, sob, get back, smack, say · To what, where: phone, Lily · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: «she nicked my phone» — Lily's sobbing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nicked	nsubj
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 phone	nmod:poss
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sobbing	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Lily	case
10	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nicked	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick in a quote	past	she	my phone					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent phone=Beneficiary sobbing=Theme
2	sob		Lily						nom sobbing «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: «I'll get it back, I'll smack her», says Kieran.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smack	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 smack	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 smack	aux
10	smack	smack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smack	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 says	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get back in a quote	future	Kieran	phone					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	smack in a quote	future	Kieran	Lily					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	Kieran						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

Sentence 3: Wiser idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Let Kieran go and smack her to get it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smack	cc
5	smack	smack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smack	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 smack	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Kieran					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	Kieran not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smack	infinitive	Kieran not said here	Kieran					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	get back	to-infinitive	Kieran not said here	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Grab it back yourself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Grab	advmod
4	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab back	imperative	you not said here	it				yourself obl	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fetch the teacher on duty right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fetch	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 duty	case
5	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fetch	obl
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 now	advmod
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Fetch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	imperative	you not said here	the teacher		duty	now		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme on duty=Source

Option 4

Nick her phone back in return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nick	Nick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 phone	compound
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 phone	nmod:poss
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 phone	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 return	case
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 phone	nmod

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

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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