Test 5 · ★ · Parents' rules for big games
«noah's mum said NOT TILL 16. like, carved in stone». What's Noah's wisest move?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, wisest move, Noah · What happens: not say, carve, be, move · To what, where: stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 404 «Parents' rules for big games» 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: «noah's mum said NOT TILL 16. like, carved in stone».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | noah | noah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 noah | case |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | advmod |
| 7 | TILL | till | ADP | _ | 8 16 | case |
| 8 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 16 | punct |
| 10 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 8 16 | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carved | punct |
| 12 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carved | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 carved | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | past | noah's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carve in a quote | participle | stone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination |
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 Noah's wisest move?
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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 move | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Noah | case |
| 5 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 move | amod |
| 6 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Noah's wisest move | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | move | Noah | nom move «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Accept it and stop asking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Accept | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stop | cc |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Accept | conj |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | imperative | you not said here | it | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Play it round at a mate's house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Play | obj |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Play | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mate | det |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 mate | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | imperative | you not said here | it | a mate's house | round property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Download the demo secretly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Download | download | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 demo | det |
| 3 | demo | demo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Download | obj |
| 4 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 1 Download | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | download | imperative | you not said here | the demo | secretly property | tree rules |
Option 4
Keep asking her every single day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asking | obj |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asking | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | you not said here | her = she | day | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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