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Test 4 · «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home

«I fed him!!» says Sam, but the bowl is empty and the hamster chews its bedding. What would have been the right thing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam, bowl, hamster · What happens: feed, say, be, chew · To what, where: him, bedding, right thing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 427 ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» 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: «I fed him!!» says Sam, but the bowl is empty and the hamster chews its bedding.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 fed	nsubj
3	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fed	obj
5	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 empty	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 empty	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bowl	det
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 empty	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	cop
14	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 chews	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hamster	det
17	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chews	nsubj
18	chews	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 empty	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bedding	nmod:poss
20	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chews	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	past	Sam		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	present	Sam						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	the bowl					empty property	tree rules
4	chew	present	the hamster	hamster's bedding					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedding=Patient

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 would have been the right thing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would · perfect		the right thing					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Fill the bowl quietly and say nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fill	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Fill	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Fill	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	imperative	you not said here	the bowl				quietly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient
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 2

Blame the hamster for eating fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hamster	det
3	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Blame	advcl
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 eating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the hamster					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Theme
2	eat	gerund	you not said here					fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Buy a bigger bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bowl	amod
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a bigger bowl					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say «I forgot» so someone could feed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 forgot	nsubj
4	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feed	advcl
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 forgot	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 feed	advmod
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 feed	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feed	aux
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	forget in a quote	past	I						tree rules
3	feed	could	someone		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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