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Test 4 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

Kieran sees the cinema photo and types «fine, be like that, ur all fake». What would have been better?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kieran · What happens: see, type, be · To what, where: cinema photo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 478 «Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else» 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 sees the cinema photo and types «fine, be like that, ur all fake».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 photo	det
4	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 photo	compound
5	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sees	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 types	cc
7	types	type	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sees	conj
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 types	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 that	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 that	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sees	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fake	punct
15	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 fake	nmod:poss
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 fake	det
17	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sees	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 fake	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Kieran	the cinema photo					tree rules
2	type	present	Kieran not said here					fine property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	infinitive						like that	tree rules

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 have been better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 better	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 better	cop
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 What	amod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Never speak to them 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 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	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		them = they		again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent

Option 2

Tell their mums

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mums	nmod:poss
3	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		their mums				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ask them first what happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Ask	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		them = they			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Post a mean photo of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Post	post	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 photo	det
3	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 photo	amod
4	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Post	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 photo	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	imperative	you not said here	a mean photo of them					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=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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