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Test 6 · A stranger's story

Lady in Dublin: «You'll be on telly! Just don't tell your mam, it's a surprise.» What should Oisin do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lady, you, mam, Oisin · What happens: be, not tell, do · To what, where: telly, mam, surprise · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 446 «A stranger's story» 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: Lady in Dublin: «You'll be on telly!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 telly	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Dublin	case
3	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lady	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 telly	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 telly	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 telly	nsubj
7	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 telly	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 telly	cop
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 telly	case
10	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 telly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	future	Lady in Dublin			telly			tree rules

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: Just don't tell your mam, it's a surprise.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 tell	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mam	nmod:poss
6	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 surprise	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 surprise	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 surprise	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 surprise	det
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your mam					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient
2	is a	present	mam	a surprise					tree rules

Sentence 3: What should Oisin 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	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	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	Oisin						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Ask for a signed contract first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 contract	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 contract	det
4	signed	sign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 contract	amod
5	contract	contract	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here					for a signed contract; first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sign	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Keep the surprise for a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 surprise	det
3	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 week	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	the surprise			week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Give his address but not the phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 address	nmod:poss
3	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 phone	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 phone	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 phone	det
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 address	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	his address but the phone					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme
2	address		his = he						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell his mam straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mam	nmod:poss
3	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	his mam				away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mam=Recipient

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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