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Test 8 · Three's a crowd, and the friend who picks someone else

Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl. What should that girl do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Harper, girl · What happens: give out, do · To what, where: party invites, everyone, class

This is test 8 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: Harper gives out party invites in class to everyone but one girl.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harper	Harper	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 gives	compound:prt
4	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invites	compound
5	invites	invite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 class	case
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 gives	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 girl	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 girl	nummod
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	present	Harper	party invites	everyone	class			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent invite=Theme to everyone=Recipient

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 should that girl do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	that girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Steal an invite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 invite	det
3	invite	invite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	imperative	you not said here	a invite					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location invite=Theme

Option 2

Turn up at the party anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Turn	compound:prt
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 party	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	imperative	you not said here			the party		anyway property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at party=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Tell everyone Harper's party is rubbish and nobody should go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	Harper	Harper	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 party	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Harper	case
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rubbish	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbish	cop
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 go	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 rubbish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is a	present	Harper's party	rubbish					tree rules
3	go	should	nobody						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tell a grown-up and do something nice with family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 grown	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 grown	compound
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 do	obj
9	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 family	case
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a grown					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
2	do	infinitive	you not said here	something				with family	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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