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Test 3 · ★★ · Street gangs and loyalty

Older lad: «here's a fiver, little bro, just hold this bag for me». What's wise?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: fiver, bag

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 383 «Street gangs and loyalty» 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: Older lad: «here's a fiver, little bro, just hold this bag for me».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 lad	amod
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 fiver	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 here	punct
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fiver	advmod
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fiver	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fiver	det
8	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lad	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bro	punct
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bro	amod
11	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fiver	vocative
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 hold	advmod
14	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 fiver	parataxis
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 bag	det
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hold	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 hold	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a fiver		here		little bro vocative	tree rules
2	hold in a quote	infinitive		this bag				for me	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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: What's wise?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wise	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wise	cop
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wise	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Say no and tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
6	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adult	amod
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a 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 2

Hold it but don't look inside the bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 look	advmod
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	conj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 bag	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bag	det
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not look	infinitive · do-support	you not said here					inside the bag	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent inside bag=Theme

Option 3

Ask for a tenner instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 tenner	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tenner	det
4	tenner	tenner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					for a tenner; instead property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Take it, a fiver's a fiver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fiver	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fiver	det
5	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fiver	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fiver	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fiver	det
8	fiver	fiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	a fiver	a fiver					tree rules

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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