Test 5 · ★★★ · What a real friend is
«new kid's stood by the wall pretending to read the fire notice, lol». What would Mia do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid, Mia · What happens: stand, pretend, read, do · To what, where: fire notice
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 485 «What a real friend is» 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: «new kid's stood by the wall pretending to read the fire notice, lol».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 kid | case |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pretending | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 notice | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 notice | compound |
| 14 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lol | punct |
| 16 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 5 stood | discourse |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 lol | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | participle | new kid | by the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wall=Location | ||||
| 2 | pretend in a quote | gerund | new kid not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | read in a quote | to-infinitive | new kid not said here | the fire notice | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Topic |
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 Mia do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | Mia | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Tell her the fire notice is boring
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 notice | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | compound |
| 5 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boring | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boring | cop |
| 7 | boring | boring | 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 | the fire notice | boring property | tree rules |
Option 2
Laugh along with everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Laugh | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 everyone | case |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Laugh | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | with everyone; along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Go over and invite her to play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 invite | cc |
| 4 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invite | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invite | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | imperative | you not said here | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invite | infinitive | you not said here | her = she | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Wait for a teacher to sort it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 teacher | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sort | mark |
| 6 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sort | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | for a teacher | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sort | to-infinitive | you not said here | teacher | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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