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Test 6 · ★★ · Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help

«don't, Maddie» — it's Chloe, who never talks to her. Maddie stops. What made it work?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it, Chloe, Maddie · What happens: not do, be, not talk, stop, make, work · To what, where: Chloe, it

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: «don't, Maddie» — it's Chloe, who never talks to her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Maddie	punct
5	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 do	vocative
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 Maddie	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 Chloe	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Chloe	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Chloe	cop
10	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talks	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 talks	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 talks	advmod
14	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Chloe	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talks	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	imperative	you not said here					Maddie vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	Chloe					tree rules
3	not talk	present	Chloe		Chloe				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent

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: Maddie stops.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Maddie						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Sentence 3: What made it work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		it					tree rules
2	work	infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Chloe called a teacher over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	2 called	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call over speech: assert	past	Chloe		a teacher			over property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Maddie was tired from running about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 running	mark
5	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Maddie					tired property	tree rules
2	run about	gerund	Maddie not said here					about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A quiet word from someone unexpected

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 word	amod
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 someone	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 word	nmod
6	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 someone	amod

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

Option 4

Chloe threatened her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threatened	nsubj
2	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threatened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	Chloe	her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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