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Test 4 · ★★ · Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help

Freddie: «I'm not going on me own to get sir». What can Sam do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Sam · What happens: not go, get, do · To what, where: sir

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Freddie: «I'm not going on me own to get sir».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Freddie	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 going	advmod
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Freddie	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 going	obl
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 going	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 own	advcl
13	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Freddie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	present · progressive	I					on me; own property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=Location
2	get in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	sir					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sir=Stimulus

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 can Sam do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Say «chicken» and stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 chicken	punct
3	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 chicken	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stay	cc
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	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	chicken					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chicken=Topic
2	stay	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Go with him, so they both get there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	nsubj
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					with him = he	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
2	get	present	they			there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Go film it instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Go	obj
4	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here	film				instead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Tell him to stay and watch it with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 stay	mark
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 watch	cc
6	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watch	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	infinitive	you not said here	it				with you	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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