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Test 10 · Adults who help and adults who don't

«what's the point telling, adults never do nothing». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: point, adults · What happens: tell, not do, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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: «what's the point telling, adults never do nothing».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 telling	obj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 point	det
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	nsubj
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	ccomp
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 do	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · progressive	the point						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not do in a quote	present	adults	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice

Adults only help rich kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 help	advmod
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kids	amod
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Adults		rich kids				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some don't, but many do, so keep telling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 keep	advmod
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	present · do-support							tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only the police can help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 police	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 police	det
3	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	the police						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It's true, no adult ever helps, so don't bother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	_	8 helps	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helps	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 helps	advmod
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bother	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 bother	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 bother	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bother	advmod
13	bother	bother	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	help	present	no adult				ever		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	not bother	infinitive · do-support							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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