Test 3 · ★ · Sleepovers and inside jokes
«go on, ring the last number and say summat rude, don't be a wet wipe». Best move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: go on, ring, say, do, not be · To what, where: last number, summat, wet wipe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 462 «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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: «go on, ring the last number and say summat rude, don't be a wet wipe».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ring | punct |
| 5 | ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 ring | conj |
| 11 | summat | summat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 say | obj |
| 12 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 say | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 wipe | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wipe | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wipe | det |
| 18 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wipe | amod |
| 19 | wipe | wipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ring in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the last number | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | summat | rude property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent summat=Topic | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | infinitive | a wet wipe | 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: Best move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 move | amod |
| 2 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 move | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ring your teacher instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ring | obj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Ring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | imperative | you not said here | your teacher | instead property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teacher=Theme |
Option 2
Make someone else do it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | someone not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Say no and laugh it off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 1 Say | discourse |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 laugh | cc |
| 4 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laugh | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 laugh | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh off | infinitive | you not said here | it | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Do it but hang up fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | obj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 hang | cc |
| 4 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hang | compound:prt |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 hang | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hang up | infinitive | you not said here | fast property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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