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Test 7 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone

Callie's mate: «my mam said «stop greetin'» too, that's normal, just get on with it». Callie's arm is still sore after an hour. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, that, arm · What happens: say, stop, be, get on, do · To what, where: greetin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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: Callie's mate: «my mam said «stop greetin'» too, that's normal, just get on with it».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Callie	Callie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Callie	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mam	nmod:poss
7	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
11	greetin	greetin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	obj
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
14	too	too	ADV	_	10 stop	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 normal	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 normal	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 normal	cop
18	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stop	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	21 get	advmod
21	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 normal	parataxis
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 get	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	obl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 stop	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Callie's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	infinitive		greetin					tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	that					normal property	tree rules
4	get on in a quote	infinitive						with mam	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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: Callie's arm is still sore after an hour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Callie	Callie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arm	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Callie	case
3	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sore	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sore	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sore	advmod
6	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	9 hour	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hour	det
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sore	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sore	punct

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

Sentence 3: What should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	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	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	arm						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Get on with it and hope it stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Get	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Get	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hope	cc
6	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stops	nsubj
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hope	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get on	imperative	you not said here					with it	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	hope	present	you not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stop	present	it						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Go back to class and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here					to class result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to class=Result
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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

Tell a teacher or another grown-up

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	3 teacher	det
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 up	cc
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 up	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 up	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teacher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher or another grown up				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Ask her mate to look at it later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	iobj
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	vocative
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she			mate vocative	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here					at mate; late property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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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