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Test 11 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, someone · What happens: do, shove · To what, where: little brother, me

This is test 11 · ★ 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: little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brother	amod
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 do	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
7	DO	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 brother	appos
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 shoves	mark
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 shoves	nsubj
12	shoves	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 shoves	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · do-support	I	little brother					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	shove a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	someone	me					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Keep it a secret from everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it		everyone			vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from everyone=Eventuality

Option 2

Hit the nearest person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 person	det
3	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 person	amod
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	the nearest person					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Co-Theme

Option 3

Shove back harder than they shoved you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shove	shove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	3 harder	advmod
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Shove	xcomp
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 shoved	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shoved	nsubj
6	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 harder	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 shoved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	shove	past	they	you					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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

Step away, then tell a grown-up you trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Step	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Step	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 up	det
7	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 up	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 trust	nsubj
11	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 up	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a grown up			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
3	trust	present	you	a grown up not said here					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme

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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