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Test 4 · ★★ · Big kids, little kids and the truth at home

Two kids agree to say «we both cleaned». What would happen if a parent asked them separately what they each did?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two kids, we, parent, kids · What happens: agree, say, clean, happen, ask, do · To what, where: kids · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth 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: Two kids agree to say «we both cleaned».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kids	nummod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agree	nsubj
3	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agree	xcomp
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 cleaned	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 cleaned	nsubj
8	both	both	ADV	_	9 cleaned	advmod
9	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 cleaned	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Two kids						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Two kids not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	clean in a quote	past	we					both property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 happen if a parent asked them separately what they each did?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 asked	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 parent	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	obj
9	separately	separately	ADV	_	10 what	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 asked	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 did	nsubj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	a parent		kids = kid				tree rules
3	do	past	kids = kid						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Parents never ask separately

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ask	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 ask	advmod
3	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	separately	separately	ADV	_	3 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	present	Parents					separately property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The cleaning would get done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cleaning	det
2	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 done	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux:pass
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would · passive		the cleaning					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Their stories would always match perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stories	nmod:poss
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 match	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 match	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 match	advmod
5	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 match	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	match	would	Their stories					always, perfectly property	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their details might not match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 details	nmod:poss
2	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 match	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 match	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 match	advmod
5	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not match	might	Their details						vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	detail		Their = they						nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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