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Test 9 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away

Maddie says she's «wearing thongs to school». Lily gasps. What should Lily do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie, Lily · What happens: say, wear, gasp, do · To what, where: thongs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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: Maddie says she's «wearing thongs to school».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wearing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wearing	aux
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 wearing	punct
6	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	ccomp
7	thongs	thong	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wearing	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wearing	obl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 wearing	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Maddie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wear in a quote	present · progressive	Maddie	thongs				to school	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thong=Theme

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: Lily gasps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gasps	nsubj
2	gasps	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gasps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gasp	present	Lily						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What should Lily do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	Lily						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Hang up in shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 shock	case
4	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang up	imperative	you not said here			shock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shock=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask what the word means there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 means	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	mean	present	the word			there			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3

Report Maddie to the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Report	report	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Report	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 teacher	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Report	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	imperative	you not said here	Maddie	the teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent maddie=Topic to teacher=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Pretend she understood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 understood	conj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 understood	nsubj
3	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	past	she						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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