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Test 2 · Jake and the head teacher

Mr Pryce: «Tell me exactly what happened, from the start». Why does he ask that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mr Pryce, Pryce · What happens: tell, happen, ask · To what, where: Mr Pryce, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 373 «Jake and the head teacher» 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: Mr Pryce: «Tell me exactly what happened, from the start».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pryce	flat
2	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Tell	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Tell	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Tell	punct
5	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 Tell	iobj
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 what	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 start	det
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Tell	parataxis
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 Tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Mr Pryce		Mr Pryce = pryce				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen in a quote	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «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: Why does he ask that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ask	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 ask	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · do-support	Pryce	that					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To fill in time before home time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fill	mark
2	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fill	obl
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	compound
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	to-infinitive					time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Because he wasn't listening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 listening	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 listening	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 listening	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 listening	advmod
5	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · progressive	he						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To trick Jake into confessing to something he didn't do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obj
4	into	into	SCONJ	_	5 confessing	mark
5	confessing	confess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 trick	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 something	case
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 confessing	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 something	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		Jake					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Patient
2	confess	gerund			something				vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to something=Recipient
3	not do	past · do-support	Jake						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To find out the facts and the real reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 find	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 facts	det
5	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 reason	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reason	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reason	amod
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 facts	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	to-infinitive		the facts and the real reason					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Topic

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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