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Test 3 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days

A friend says, «my dad gets so angry at us I'm scared to go home». What should the friend do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, dad · What happens: say, get, be, go, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: A friend says, «my dad gets so angry at us I'm scared to go home».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gets	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 gets	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 gets	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 scared	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 scared	cop
15	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 scared	advcl
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 scared	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present	my dad					at us; angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is in a quote	present	a friend = friend					scared property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	to-infinitive	a friend = friend not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 should the friend 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friend	det
4	friend	friend	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	the friend						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Stay at the park until it's dark outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 park	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 park	det
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 dark	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dark	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	cop
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stay	advcl
9	outside	outside	ADV	_	8 dark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			the park			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at park=Location
2	is	present	park					dark, outside property	tree rules

Option 2

Wait for it to get better by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 get	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	it					by itself = it; good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell a trusted adult or call Childline

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	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 call	cc
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
7	Childline	Childline	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	call	infinitive	you not said here		Childline				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent childline=Recipient

Option 4

Keep it secret so Dad doesn't find out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 find	mark
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 find	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 find	advmod
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 find	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	not find out	present · do-support	Dad						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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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