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Test 7 · ★ · The copier and the one who competes at everything

Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head in. Kind idea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: little cousin, you, cousin · What happens: copy, do, do in · To what, where: everything, head

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 469 «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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: Your little cousin copies everything you do and it's doing your head in.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copies	nsubj
4	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 copies	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 everything	acl:relcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 doing	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 doing	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 copies	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	11 doing	compound:prt
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 copies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	Your little cousin	everything					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	do	present	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do in	present · progressive	cousin	your head					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality

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: Kind idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 idea	amod
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Copy her back to wind her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Copy	obj
3	back	back	ADV	_	1 Copy	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wind	mark
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Copy	obl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wind	appos
7	up	up	ADP	_	1 Copy	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy back	imperative	you not said here	her = she				wind obl	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2

Hide from her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	1 Hide	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Tell her she's annoying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 annoying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 annoying	cop
5	annoying	annoying	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		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	present	she					annoying property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do something together, like a silly photo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Do	obj
3	together	together	ADV	_	1 Do	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 photo	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 photo	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 photo	det
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 photo	amod
8	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	something				like a silly photo; together property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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