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Test 3 · ★★ · The bulldog next door who never likes you

Connor: «my uncle says u stare it down, show it who's boss». Who's right, Connor or Sam's dad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Connor · What happens: say, stare down, show, be · To what, where: it, boss · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 456 «The bulldog next door who never likes you» 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: Connor: «my uncle says u stare it down, show it who's boss».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 uncle	nmod:poss
5	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	u	u	PART	_	8 stare	mark
8	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stare	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 stare	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 show	obj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 boss	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 boss	cop
16	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	ccomp
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 boss	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Connor						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stare down in a quote	infinitive	Connor not said here	it					tree rules
3	show in a quote	infinitive	Connor not said here	it					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	is a in a quote	present		boss					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: Who's right, Connor or Sam's dad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Connor	punct
5	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 dad	cc
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dad	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sam	case
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Connor	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						Connor or Sam's dad obl; right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Connor: stare it down hard till it backs off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stare	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 stare	punct
3	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stare	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 stare	compound:prt
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 stare	advmod
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 backs	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 backs	nsubj
9	backs	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stare	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 backs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare down	infinitive	Connor	it				hard property	tree rules
2	back off	present	it						vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Neither, lie flat and scream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	flat	flat	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scream	cc
6	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here					flat, neither property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scream speech: express	infinitive	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Both, stare then run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stare	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Both	punct
3	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stare	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	infinitive	Both						tree rules
2	run	infinitive	Both not said here				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sam's dad: stand still and look away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dad	parataxis
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	infinitive					still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look away	infinitive						away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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