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Test 4 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»

Rosie slammed the door, then heard Dad sigh in the kitchen. What could she do to fix it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rosie, Dad · What happens: slam, hear, sigh, do, fix · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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: Rosie slammed the door, then heard Dad sigh in the kitchen.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rosie	Rosie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slammed	nsubj
2	slammed	slam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slammed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 heard	advmod
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slammed	conj
8	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sigh	nsubj
9	sigh	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 kitchen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kitchen	det
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sigh	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slammed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	past	Rosie	the door					vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	hear	past	Rosie not said here				then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	sigh	present	Dad					in the kitchen	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme

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 could she do to fix it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fix	mark
6	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 do	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fix	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	Rosie						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	fix	to-infinitive	Rosie not said here	door					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1

Never ask for anything ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 anything	case
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 ask	obl
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 ask	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here				ever; again	for anything	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Ask Gran to buy the phone in secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 buy	mark
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 secret	case
8	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		Gran				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent gran=Recipient clause=Topic
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the phone		secret			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Slam it again so he knows she means it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slam	slam	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Slam	obj
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 Slam	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 knows	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Slam	advcl
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 means	nsubj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knows	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slam	imperative	you not said here	it			again		vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	know	present	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean	present	she	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry, it's OK to have been cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 OK	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 OK	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 OK	cop
6	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	10 cross	mark
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cross	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cross	cop
10	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 OK	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					ok property	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive · perfect		cross					tree rules

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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