Test 8 · ★ · «Free skins» and scams in games
Kid at school: «well rare item, a fiver, trust me». What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: trust, do · To what, where: me
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 444 ««Free skins» and scams in games» 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: Kid at school: «well rare item, a fiver, trust me».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 item | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 school | case |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 item | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 item | punct |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 rare | advmod |
| 7 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 item | amod |
| 8 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fiver | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fiver | det |
| 11 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 item | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trust | punct |
| 13 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 item | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 trust | obj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 trust | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 item | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | infinitive | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Trust him because he said «trust me»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Trust | obj |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Trust | advcl |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 trust | punct |
| 7 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 trust | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 trust | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trust in a quote | infinitive | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
Option 2
Pay at once before it's gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Pay | nmod |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pay | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Pay | gone property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Check its real worth before paying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 worth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 worth | amod |
| 4 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Check | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 paying | mark |
| 6 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Check | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | its real worth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | you not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Pay double so he's happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pay | obj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pay | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | double | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is | present | he | happy 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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