Test 11 · ★ · Strangers who want to chat privately

«if I tell mum about the creepy message, will I get in trouble?»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: tell, get · To what, where: mum, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	13 get	punct
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 tell	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	advcl
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 message	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 message	det
8	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 message	amod
9	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 trouble	case
15	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I		mum			about the creepy message	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient about message=Topic
2	get in a quote	future	I			trouble			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yes, you'll lose your console for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 lose	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lose	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lose	aux
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 console	nmod:poss
7	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	future	you	your console				for good	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, telling is getting help, and it's right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 getting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 getting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 getting	aux
5	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 getting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 right	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 right	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 getting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present · progressive		help		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
3	is	present	help		right property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, so don't tell her anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 anything	nmod:poss
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 tell	obj

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

Option 4

Only if you answered it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 answered	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 answered	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	you	it					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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