Test 7 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group

Connor: «Ryan's my best mate, he just can't be seen with me at school». What would his mum say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ryan, mum · What happens: be, not see, say · To what, where: best mate, Ryan, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Connor: «Ryan's my best mate, he just can't be seen with me at school».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Connor	Connor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
4	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mate	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mate	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mate	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 mate	amod
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Connor	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 seen	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 mate	acl:relcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 seen	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 school	case
19	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Connor	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Ryan	my best mate					tree rules
2	not see in a quote	can · passive		Ryan		school		with me	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: What would his mum say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Ryan's mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You deserve a friend who's proud to be seen with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 deserve	nsubj
2	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deserve	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 proud	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 proud	cop
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 seen	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 seen	aux:pass
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 proud	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	You	a friend		tree rules
2	is	present	a friend		proud property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive · passive	a friend not said here		with you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

Just hide at school too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 hide	advmod
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hide	obl
5	too	too	ADV	_	2 hide	advmod

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

Option 3

That's normal for best mates, everyone does it at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 normal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 mates	case
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 mates	amod
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 normal	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 does	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 school	case
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					for best mates; normal property	tree rules
2	do	present	everyone	it		school			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Pay Ryan to be nice at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Ryan	Ryan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pay	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	5 nice	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 nice	cop
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pay	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	imperative	you not said here	Ryan					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ryan=Asset
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here			school		nice property	tree rules

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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