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Test 5 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

Kieran: «if ya don't hit back you're a target forever, my uncle said». Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran, you, uncle · What happens: not hit back, be, say · To what, where: target · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Kieran: «if ya don't hit back you're a target forever, my uncle said».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hit	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hit	mark
5	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hit	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hit	advmod
8	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 hit	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 target	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 target	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 target	det
13	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	obj
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 hit	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 uncle	nmod:poss
17	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hit	parataxis
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit back in a quote	present · do-support	Kieran					forever property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	you	a target					tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my uncle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	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 · ← Mova's choice

Targets get a medal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Targets	target	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 medal	det
4	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Targets	a medal					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medal=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody ever picks on people who hit back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 picks	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 picks	advmod
3	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 picks	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hit	nsubj
7	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	present	Nobody				ever	on people	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on people=Patient
2	hit back	past	people						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Uncles are always right about fights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 right	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 fights	case
6	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Uncles					about fights; always, right property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hitting back often keeps the fight going for longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Hitting	advmod
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 keeps	advmod
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	obj
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 longer	case
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit back	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	Hitting	the fight				often property	tree rules
3	go	gerund	the fight not said here						vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for long=Beneficiary

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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