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Test 4 · ★ · Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily

Ollie hid her pencil case again. What would have worked better for Ollie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie · What happens: hide, work · To what, where: pencil case

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 387 «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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: Ollie hid her pencil case again.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 case	nmod:poss
4	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 case	compound
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 hid	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	Ollie	Ollie's pencil case			again		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient

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 would have worked better for Ollie?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 worked	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worked	aux
4	worked	work	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 worked	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Ollie	case
7	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would · perfect						for Ollie; well property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent what=Theme for ollie=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Telling everyone she lost it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lost	advcl
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Telling	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	she not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	lose	past	she	it					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Just saying hello to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	hello	hello	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		hello	her = she				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to she=Recipient

Option 3

Writing on her pencil case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 case	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 case	nmod:poss
4	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 case	compound
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Writing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	gerund				her pencil case			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on case=Destination

Option 4

Hiding her lunchbox as well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lunchbox	nmod:poss
3	lunchbox	lunchbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obj
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	1 Hiding	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		her lunchbox					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunchbox=Patient

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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