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Test 4 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group

Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her. What's the best first step?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, Grace, best first step · What happens: see, giggle, look, be · To what, where: Grace

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 468 «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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: Lily sees Grace and Maddie giggling and looking at her.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sees	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Maddie	cc
5	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Grace	conj
6	giggling	giggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sees	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looking	cc
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 giggling	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looking	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Lily	Grace and Maddie					tree rules
2	giggle	gerund	Grace and Maddie not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	Grace and Maddie not said here					at Lily	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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: What's the best first step?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 step	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 step	amod
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 step	amod
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Leave the school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 school	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the school					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme

Option 2

Shout at both of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 both	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Shout	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 both	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here			both			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Start giggling about them back, louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	giggling	giggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 giggling	obl
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Start	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 louder	punct
7	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Start	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	giggle	gerund	you not said here					about them = they	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ask Maddie directly, in private

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 private	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 private	case
6	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ask	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		Maddie			directly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maddie=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.

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