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Test 6 · ★ · Nightmares after a scary game

Priya's mum sees monsters all over her homework. What's the best thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, best thing · What happens: see, be, do · To what, where: monsters, homework

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 402 «Nightmares after a scary game» 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: Priya's mum sees monsters all over her homework.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Priya	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	nsubj
4	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sees	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 homework	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 homework	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 homework	nmod:poss
9	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sees	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Priya's mum	monsters		mum's homework			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=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's the best thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the best thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Ask gently where they came from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 came	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	advcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					gently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Ignore it and say nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	conj
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 say	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Shout at her for scribbling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shout	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 scribbling	case
5	scribbling	scribbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					at her = she; for scribbling	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for scribbling=Recipient

Option 4

Tear the homework up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 homework	det
3	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tear	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 Tear	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear up	imperative	you not said here	the homework					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location homework=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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