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Test 8 · ★★ · Big kids, little kids and the truth at home

Little sister finds out years later the dog didn't go to a farm. What helps most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Little sister, dog · What happens: find out, not go, help · To what, where: farm

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Little sister finds out years later the dog didn't go to a farm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sister	amod
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 finds	compound:prt
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 later	obl:unmarked
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 go	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 finds	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 farm	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 farm	det
14	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	present	Little sister						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	not go	past · do-support	the dog			a farm		late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location

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 helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Saying it was a different dog that went away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 dog	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Saying	obj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	acl:relcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	is a	past	Saying	a different dog					tree rules
3	go away	past	a different dog					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Talking honestly and looking at photos together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	1 Talking	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 looking	cc
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Talking	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 photos	case
6	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looking	obl
7	together	together	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund						honestly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund						at photos; together property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at photo=Theme

Option 3

Never talking about it again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 talking	advmod
2	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talking	obl
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 talking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	gerund					again	about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 4

Saying the farm was real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 real	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farm	det
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the farm					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farm=Topic
2	is	past	Saying					real property	tree rules

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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