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Test 2 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

Jake's mate: «u told Pryce?? grass». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: Pryce · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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: Jake's mate: «u told Pryce?? grass».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	ccomp
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
6	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
9	??	??	PART	_	10 grass	mark
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	ccomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	u		Pryce				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pryce=Recipient

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Telling is always grassing, whatever the reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 grassing	csubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grassing	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 grassing	advmod
4	grassing	grass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whatever	punct
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 grassing	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whatever	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grass	present · progressive	Telling	whatever				always property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent whatever=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Telling to stop trouble is not grassing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 grassing	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stop	mark
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp
4	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 grassing	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 grassing	advmod
7	grassing	grass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive		trouble					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trouble=Eventuality
3	not grass	present · progressive	Telling						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Grassing is fine if you're scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grassing	grassing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 scared	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grassing					fine property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					scared property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only girls tell teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 girls	advmod
2	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	nsubj
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	girls		teachers				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

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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