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Test 6 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

teacher on duty, busy: «not now, sort it yourselves». What next?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sort · To what, where: teacher

This is test 6 · ★ 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: teacher on duty, busy: «not now, sort it yourselves».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 busy	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 duty	case
3	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 teacher	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
5	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 now	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 sort	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 now	punct
11	sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 busy	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sort	obj
13	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 sort	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 sort	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 busy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort in a quote	infinitive		teacher			now		tree rules

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 next?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	next	next	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Cry and do nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 do	cc
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cry	conj
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Sort it out with fists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sort	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Sort	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fists	case
5	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sort	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	imperative	you not said here	it				with fists	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Go home and never come back to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	infinitive	you not said here			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Find another adult and tell them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Find	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Find	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	another adult					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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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