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Test 2 · ★ · When the police come

Mate: «tell the copper u never saw nothing, don't be a grass». What's right for a witness?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u · What happens: tell, not see, do, not be, be · To what, where: copper, nothing, grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 384 «When the police come» 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: Mate: «tell the copper u never saw nothing, don't be a grass».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mate	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 copper	det
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 saw	advmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 copper	acl:relcl
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 grass	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 grass	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 grass	det
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 do	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the copper					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent copper=Recipient
2	not see in a quote	past	u	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is a in a quote	infinitive		a grass					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: What's right for a witness?

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	for	for	ADP	_	6 witness	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 witness	det
6	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						for a witness; right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Blame someone you don't like very much

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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 someone	acl:relcl
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	6 like	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	someone					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	not like	present · do-support	you						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say honestly what you actually saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	1 Say	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 saw	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					honestly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past	you					actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Say you saw nothing at all, to be safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 saw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safe	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	10 safe	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 safe	cop
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis

#	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 clause=Topic
2	see	past	you	nothing		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive						safe property	tree rules

Option 4

Make up a different, more exciting story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Make	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 different	punct
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 exciting	advmod
7	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	imperative	you not said here	a different exciting story					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot

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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