Mason never shows the phone, and one kid keeps teasing him. Another says «leave it». Who did the kinder thing?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mason, one kid, Another · What happens: not show, keep, tease, say, leave, do · To what, where: phone, kid, kinder thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 434 «The friend with a PS6» 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: Mason never shows the phone, and one kid keeps teasing him.
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phone=Recipient
2
keep
present
one kid
tree rules
3
tease
gerund
one kid not said here
kid
vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
leavein a quote
infinitive
it
vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
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.