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Test 9 · ★★ · Covering for a friend

Kiri and her mate went to a flooding creek and said they «stayed inside». What should Kiri tell her mum?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kiri · What happens: go, say, stay, tell · To what, where: flooding creek, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 436 «Covering for a friend» 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: Kiri and her mate went to a flooding creek and said they «stayed inside».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiri	Kiri	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mate	cc
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mate	nmod:poss
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kiri	conj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 creek	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 creek	det
8	flooding	flooding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 creek	compound
9	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stayed	nsubj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	inside	inside	ADV	_	14 stayed	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Kiri and her mate			a flooding creek			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to creek=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Kiri and her mate not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stay in a quote	past	Kiri					inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 should Kiri tell her mum?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	Kiri	Kiri	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	Kiri		mate's mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient mum=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The truth, because it's about danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 truth	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 danger	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 danger	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 danger	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 danger	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 danger	advmod
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 truth	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	truth	danger				about property	tree rules

Option 2

That they stayed inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 stayed	nsubj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	That					inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, because it's all over now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 over	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 over	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 over	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 over	advmod
7	over	over	ADV	_	1 Nothing	acl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 over	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it				now	all, over property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That her friend went there alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 friend	det
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	her friend			there		alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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