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Test 8 · ★★ · When the story falls apart

Arlo: «skating sounds cool, bath sounds dumb». What's the lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arlo, bath, lesson · What happens: sound, be

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 431 «When the story falls apart» 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: Arlo: «skating sounds cool, bath sounds dumb».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arlo	Arlo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Arlo	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct
4	skating	skating	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounds	nsubj
5	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sounds	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct
8	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounds	nsubj
9	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sounds	conj
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sounds	xcomp
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound in a quote	present	Arlo					cool property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sound in a quote	present	bath					dumb property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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's the lesson?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lesson						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bath stories should be kept secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stories	compound
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	aux:pass
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should · passive		Bath stories				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Always pick the cooler story, people like it more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 pick	advmod
2	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pick	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pick	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 like	obj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 like	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	the cooler story				always property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
2	like	present	people	story					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 3

Never tell anyone you fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 tell	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 anyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	fall	past	you						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A funny truth makes a better story than a cool lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 truth	det
2	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 truth	amod
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 lie	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lie	det
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lie	amod
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a funny truth	a better story				than a cool lie	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product

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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