Test 12 · ★★★ · Too many details, too few
«Trust me, it's obvious.» What's the right moment to do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, it, right moment · What happens: trust, be, do · To what, where: me
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 450 «Too many details, too few» 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: «Trust me, it's obvious.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trust | punct |
| 2 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Trust | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trust | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 obvious | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 obvious | cop |
| 7 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Trust | parataxis |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trust | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trust | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | imperative | you not said here | me | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | obvious property | 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: What's the right moment to do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moment | amod |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 moment | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the right moment | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the right moment not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ask for the proof
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 | _ | 4 proof | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 proof | det |
| 4 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | for the proof | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Change the subject
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Change | change | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 subject | det |
| 3 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Change | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | imperative | you not said here | the subject | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
Option 3
Agree to avoid an argument
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 avoid | mark |
| 3 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Agree | advcl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 argument | det |
| 5 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 avoid | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | you not said here | a argument | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent argument=Location |
Option 4
Trust him because he said so
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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| # | 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 |
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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