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Test 11 · ★★ · Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help

teacher asks: «Who saw what happened behind the mobile?» You did. Best?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, You · What happens: ask, see, happen, do · To what, where: mobile · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 393 «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 asks: «Who saw what happened behind the mobile?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asks	nsubj
2	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
5	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asks	ccomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 happened	nsubj
8	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 mobile	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mobile	det
11	mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 happened	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	teacher						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	past							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen in a quote	past				the mobile			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind mobile=Location

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: You did.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	You						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Best	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Make it sound worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	sound	infinitive						bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Say what you saw, nothing more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Say	obj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nothing	punct
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	parataxis
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	see	past	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Blame the Station Road boy for all of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
3	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Road	compound
4	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 boy	compound
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Blame	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the Road boy				for all	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent boy=Theme for all=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Say nothing, it's snitching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snitching	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snitching	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snitching	aux
6	snitching	snitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Say	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	snitch speech: other	present · progressive	it						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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