Test 1 · ★ · Strangers who want to chat privately

«some guy in Roblox asked what school i go to, he seems nice tho»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy, i, school · What happens: ask, go, seem · To what, where: nice tho

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 410 «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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	_	6 asked	punct
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 guy	det
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Roblox	case
5	Roblox	Roblox	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 guy	nmod
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seems	advcl
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 asked	obj
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	nsubj
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 seems	nsubj
14	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tho	amod
16	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seems	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 seems	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	some guy in Roblox		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	go in a quote	present	i		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem in a quote	present	school	nice tho	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tho=Attribute

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 · ← Mova's choice

Tell him, he seems nice and he's a good builder

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 seems	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seems	nsubj
5	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seems	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 builder	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 builder	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 builder	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 builder	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 builder	amod
12	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	seem	present	he			nice property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	he	a good builder			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Don't answer, tell a grown-up, block and report

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 answer	advmod
3	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grown	det
7	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 grown	compound
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 block	punct
11	block	block	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 report	cc
13	report	report	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 block	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	a grown	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
3	block	infinitive	you not said here		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
4	report	infinitive	you not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tell him just the town

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	just	just	ADV	_	5 town	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the town	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Ask him his school first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 school	nmod:poss
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	his school	him = he			first property	tree rules

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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