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Test 8 · ★★ · The check that settles it

Your friend says «checking means you don't trust people, it's rude». What's a good reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, you · What happens: say, check, mean, not trust, be · To what, where: people, good reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 451 «The check that settles it» 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: Your friend says «checking means you don't trust people, it's rude».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
5	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 trust	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trust	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 trust	advmod
10	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 means	ccomp
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trust	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rude	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rude	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 rude	cop
15	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 rude	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	check in a quote	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	mean in a quote	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not trust in a quote	present · do-support	you	people					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	friend					rude 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 a good reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reply	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reply	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reply	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a good reply					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Only check strangers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 check	advmod
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	strangers					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme

Option 2

Yes, never check anything, because checking is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 check	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 check	advmod
4	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 check	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rude	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 rude	mark
8	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 rude	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rude	cop
10	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 check	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not check	imperative	you not said here	anything					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	check	gerund							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	present						rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Checking calmly helps honest people too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 helps	csubj
2	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	1 Checking	advmod
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helps	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 helps	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund						calmly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	Checking		honest people				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary

Option 4

Only check grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 check	advmod
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	imperative	you not said here	grown ups					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «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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