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Test 4 · Adults who help and adults who don't

Sam: «I told Mum and she rang school. Am I a grass now?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, I · What happens: tell, ring, be · To what, where: Mum, school, grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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: Sam: «I told Mum and she rang school.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rang	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rang	nsubj
9	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rang	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Sam		Mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	ring in a quote	past	Sam	school					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location school=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: Am I a grass now?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grass	cop
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grass	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 grass	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grass	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 grass	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	a grass			now		tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only if the boys ever find out who told

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 find	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 find	compound:prt
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	infinitive	the boys				ever		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, a big one, he'll be called a grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 one	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 grass	det
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	future · passive		he					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Yes, but it doesn't matter very much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 matter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 matter	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 matter	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	7 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, telling Mum was the right thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 thing	csubj
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	iobj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			Mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	is a	past	telling	the right thing					tree rules

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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