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Test 10 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

Maddie's dad, still angry about her nose: «next time you hit him first!» Wise Maddie says?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Wise Maddie · What happens: hit, say · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 391 ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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: Maddie's dad, still angry about her nose: «next time you hit him first!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Maddie	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 angry	punct
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dad	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 nose	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nose	nmod:poss
9	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 hit	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 hit	punct
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	obl:unmarked
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hit	nsubj
15	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hit	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 hit	advmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 dad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	present	you	him = he			time	first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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: Wise Maddie says?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Maddie	amod
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Wise Maddie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

«OK Dad, I'll punch him first thing on Monday»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 punch	punct
2	OK	ok	INTJ	_	7 punch	discourse
3	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 OK	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 OK	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 punch	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 punch	aux
7	punch	punch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 punch	obj
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 punch	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Monday	case
12	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 punch	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 punch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punch in a quote	future	I	Dad			monday		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient thing=Result

Option 2

«I'll hit him twice»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
4	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 hit	advmod
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	future	I	him = he				twice property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3

«I'll get Kieran to do it»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	future	I	Kieran					tree rules
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive	Kieran not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

«I'd rather tell a teacher, Dad, so it ends»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Dad	punct
9	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ends	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 ends	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ends	nsubj
13	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	would	I	Dad	a teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	end in a quote	present	teacher						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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