Test 1 · Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»

«this guy keeps calling me thick on voice, wot do i do»

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: guy, i · What happens: keep, call, do · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 406 «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 guy	det
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 do	csubj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 calling	obj
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 calling	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 voice	case
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thick	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wot	punct
11	wot	wot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 voice	conj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 do	nsubj
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keeps	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	this guy			tree rules
2	call in a quote	gerund		me	thick property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	do in a quote	present · do-support	i			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Give him ur address to sort it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 address	nmod:poss
4	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sort	mark
6	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 sort	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	ur's address	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient address=Theme
2	sort out	to-infinitive	you not said here	address		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	address		ur			nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Call him thicker back, he started it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obj
3	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Call	xcomp
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 started	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 started	nsubj
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Call	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call back speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he			thick property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	start	past	he	it					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mute him, block, report, tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mute	mute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Mute	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 block	punct
4	block	block	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Mute	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 report	punct
6	report	report	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 block	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Mute	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mute	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	block	infinitive	you not said here			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
3	report	infinitive	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Keep listening, he'll get bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
7	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	listen	gerund	you not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	get	future	he	bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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