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Test 9 · ★ · The copier and the one who competes at everything

Ellie borrowed Maddie's word list «for luck» and won. What's the wisest reaction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ellie, Maddie, wisest reaction · What happens: borrow, win, list, be · To what, where: word list

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ellie borrowed Maddie's word list «for luck» and won.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 borrowed	nsubj
2	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 list	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Maddie	case
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 list	compound
6	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrowed	obj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 luck	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 luck	case
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrowed	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 luck	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 won	cc
12	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 borrowed	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 borrowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	past	Ellie	Maddie's word list					tree rules
2	win	past	Ellie not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	list		Maddie						nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 wisest reaction?

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	5 reaction	det
4	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reaction	amod
5	reaction	reaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

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

Lose gracefully and make new tricks for next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	1 Lose	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 make	cc
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Lose	conj
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tricks	amod
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	imperative	you not said here					gracefully property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	you not said here	new tricks			time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trick=Product

Option 2

Give up spelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here	spelling					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Source

Option 3

Never speak to Ellie again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 speak	advmod
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Ellie	case
4	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 speak	obl
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here		Ellie		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ellie=Co-Agent

Option 4

Accuse her in front of everyone of stealing the list

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Accuse	accuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Accuse	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Accuse	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 front	nmod
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 stealing	mark
8	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 everyone	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 list	det
10	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accuse	imperative	you not said here	her = she		front of everyone			vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	steal	gerund		the list					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location list=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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