Test 10 · ★★ · The forged signature and how it always ends
You already faked a note last week. What is the best thing to do now?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, best thing · What happens: fake, be, do · To what, where: note
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 429 «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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: You already faked a note last week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 faked | nsubj |
| 2 | already | already | ADV | _ | 3 faked | advmod |
| 3 | faked | fake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faked | obj |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 week | amod |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faked | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 faked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past | You | a note | week | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=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 is the best thing to do now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the best thing not said here | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Ask a friend to keep watch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ask | xcomp |
| 6 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
Option 2
Wait and hope nobody checks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hope | cc |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 checks | nsubj |
| 5 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hope | present | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | check | present | nobody | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell a trusted grown-up before the school finds it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 up | det |
| 3 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 up | amod |
| 4 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 up | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 up | punct |
| 6 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 finds | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 school | det |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finds | nsubj |
| 10 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finds | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a trusted grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | find | present | the school | up | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 4
Fake another to cover the first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Fake | conj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cover | mark |
| 4 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fake | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 first | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 cover | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | to-infinitive | the first | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme first=Destination |
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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