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Test 10 · ★ · Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper

In a cartoon, the shopkeeper chases a kid thief with a broom. What did Mr Patel do instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: shopkeeper, Mr · What happens: chase, do · To what, where: kid thief, cartoon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 483 «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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: In a cartoon, the shopkeeper chases a kid thief with a broom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chases	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shopkeeper	det
6	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chases	nsubj
7	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thief	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thief	compound
10	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chases	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 broom	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 broom	det
13	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thief	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chases	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	the shopkeeper	a kid thief		a cartoon		with a broom	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thief=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory

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 did Mr Patel do instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mr	flat
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Mr					instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Let him make it right by sweeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	7 sweeping	advmod
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 sweeping	mark
7	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	make	infinitive	him = he not said here	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	sweep	gerund	him = he not said here					right property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Called his whole school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 school	nmod:poss
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 school	amod
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		his whole school					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient

Option 3

Banned the street from the shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Banned	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 shop	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shop	det
6	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	past		the street		the shop			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer street=Beneficiary from shop=Eventuality

Option 4

Chased him with a broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chased	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 broom	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 broom	det
5	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past		him = he				with a broom	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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