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Test 10 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days

Kayden: «Mum, don't call me a drongo in front of the lads». Where is the best place to say it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, best place · What happens: not call, be, say · To what, where: me, front, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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: Kayden: «Mum, don't call me a drongo in front of the lads».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kayden	Kayden	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kayden	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kayden	punct
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 call	advmod
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 drongo	det
11	drongo	drongo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 front	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 lads	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lads	det
16	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 front	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not call in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here		me	front of the lads		Kayden vocative	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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: Where is the best place to say it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the best place					where property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the best place not said here	place					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

The options

Option 1

On the pitch, through a megaphone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 pitch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pitch	det
3	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 megaphone	punct
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 megaphone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 megaphone	det
7	megaphone	megaphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pitch	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

At home, just the two of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 home	case
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 two	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 two	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 two	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 home	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

At school assembly in front of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 assembly	case
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assembly	compound
3	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assembly	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 front	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

In the group chat with all his mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 chat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chat	det
3	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chat	compound
4	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 mates	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 mates	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mates	nmod:poss
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chat	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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