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Test 9 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales

«telling is for babies, mate». Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: «telling is for babies, mate».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 telling	punct
2	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 telling	ccomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 babies	case
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 telling	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 babies	appos
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund						for babies	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be in a quote	present							vn exist-47.1 «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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Only babies need help; big kids sort it out alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 babies	advmod
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sort	punct
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kids	amod
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sort	nsubj
8	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 need	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sort	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	8 sort	compound:prt
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 sort	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	babies	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
2	sort out	present	big kids	help				alone property	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Telling makes everything worse every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	csubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 makes	obj
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Telling	everything			time	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Getting help when someone's hurt is right at any age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 right	csubj
2	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 right	advmod
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hurt	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 age	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 age	det
11	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		help					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
2	is	present	someone's hurt				at any age	right property	tree rules
3	hurt		someone						nom hurt «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Grown-ups never need help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not need	present	Grown ups	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

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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