Test 8 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales
«nobody at home listens, the name-calling's been weeks». What's a good thing to try?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody, name calling · What happens: listen, be, try · To what, where: weeks, good thing
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: «nobody at home listens, the name-calling's been weeks».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 listens | punct |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 listens | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nobody | nmod |
| 5 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weeks | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 calling | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 calling | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 10 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weeks | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 weeks | cop |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 weeks | cop |
| 13 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 listens | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 weeks | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | present | nobody | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the name calling | weeks | tree rules |
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 a good thing to try?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1
Call them worse names every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Call | obj |
| 3 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 names | amod |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Call | obj |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Call | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | imperative | you not said here | them = they | day | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme name=Result |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ring a helpline like Childline or tell another trusted adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 helpline | det |
| 3 | helpline | helpline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ring | obj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Childline | case |
| 5 | Childline | Childline | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 helpline | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ring | conj |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 adult | det |
| 9 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 adult | amod |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | imperative | you not said here | a helpline | like Childline | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location helpline=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | another trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Give up and say nothing to anyone, ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Give | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 say | cc |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 say | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ever | punct |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 1 Give | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | imperative | you not said here | ever | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | nothing | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to anyone=Recipient |
Option 4
Wait till it gets worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 gets | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | present | it | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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