Mum, smiling tightly: «It's nothing, love.» Doors keep closing, whispers. What can you say?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, It, Doors, you · What happens: smile, be, keep, close, whisper, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 453 «Lied to by someone you love» 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.
vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
is ain a quote
present
It
nothing
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.
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2
go on
present · progressive
something
vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
Sentence 2: Please tell me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Please
please
INTJ
_
2 tell
discourse
2
tell
tell
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
3
me
I
PRON
Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs
2 tell
iobj
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
tellspeech: assert
imperative
you not said here
me
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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.