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Test 6 · ★ · Joining a game, and the shy kid

Kieran's at a party where he knows no one. Which is the best move?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran · What happens: be, know · To what, where: party, one, best move

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 466 «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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: Kieran's at a party where he knows no one.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 party	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 party	cop
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 party	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 knows	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 party	acl:relcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knows	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 party	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Kieran			a party			tree rules
2	know	present	Kieran	no one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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: Which is the best move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 move	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 move	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 move	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Tell everyone he's bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bored	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	cop
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is	present	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hide with the dog in the garden all afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 dog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 afternoon	det
9	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the garden	afternoon	with the dog	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location

Option 3

Leave without saying anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	without	without	SCONJ	_	3 saying	mark
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Leave	advcl
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Offer to help, like handing round crisps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 help	mark
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Offer	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 handing	punct
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 handing	mark
6	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 help	advcl
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crisps	amod
8	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 handing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	hand	gerund	you not said here	round crisps					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=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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