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Test 2 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

Freddie's getting blamed for the fight and you saw it wasn't him. You hate grassing. What's right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fight · What happens: blame, see, not be, hate, grass, be · To what, where: Freddie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» 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: Freddie's getting blamed for the fight and you saw it wasn't him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Freddie	case
3	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blamed	aux:pass
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 fight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saw	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blamed	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 him	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 him	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 him	advmod
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blamed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	gerund · passive						for the fight	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for fight=Attribute
2	see	past	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not is a	past	fight	Freddie					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: You hate grassing.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grassing	grass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hate	xcomp
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	You						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grass not said to happen	gerund	You not said here						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	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

Tell Freddie to take the punishment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 punishment	det
6	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Freddie				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent freddie=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		the punishment					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Tell the head what you saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 saw	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the head					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent head=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	past	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

Option 3

Blame someone else at random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Blame	obj
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 someone	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 random	case
5	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	someone		random			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Say nothing and just walk away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walk	cc
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	walk away	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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