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Test 7 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

«jake's been a nightmare all week, snapping at everyone». You find out his dad's in hospital. Best idea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jake, nightmare, You, dad · What happens: be, snap, find out · To what, where: nightmare, everyone, hospital · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: «jake's been a nightmare all week, snapping at everyone».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 nightmare	punct
2	jake	jake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nightmare	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nightmare	cop
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 nightmare	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nightmare	det
6	nightmare	nightmare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nightmare	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 snapping	punct
10	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 nightmare	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 snapping	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 snapping	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nightmare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	jake	a nightmare			week		tree rules
2	snap in a quote	gerund	a nightmare not said here			everyone			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at everyone=Location

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 find out his dad's in hospital.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hospital	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hospital	cop
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 hospital	case
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	ccomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	present	You						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	his dad			hospital			tree rules

Sentence 3: Best idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	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 · ✓ the right answer

Be a bit kinder and maybe tell a teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kinder	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kinder	obl:unmarked
4	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tell	cc
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kinder	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 teacher	det
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					a bit obl:unmarked; kind property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a teacher			maybe property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tell everyone in the class about his dad being in hospital

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 class	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 dad	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hospital	obl
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hospital	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 hospital	case
11	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	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		everyone	the class			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is	gerund				hospital		about his dad	tree rules

Option 3

Ignore him for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 good	case
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ignore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	him = he				for good	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Snap back at him twice as hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Snap	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Snap	obl
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Snap	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Snap	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap back	imperative	you not said here					at him = he; hard, twice property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location

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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