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Test 6 · Big brothers

Kwame's mate says, «just tell Miss your brother taught you, you'll be sweet». Will it work?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, brother, you, it · What happens: say, tell, teach, be, work · To what, where: Miss, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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: Kwame's mate says, «just tell Miss your brother taught you, you'll be sweet».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kwame	Kwame	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kwame	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
9	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tell	iobj
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taught	nsubj
12	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 taught	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sweet	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sweet	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sweet	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sweet	cop
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tell	parataxis
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Kwame's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Miss				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent miss=Recipient clause=Topic
3	teach speech: other in a quote	past	your brother		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is in a quote	future	you					sweet property	tree rules

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: Will it work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	future	it						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Yes, and Kojo gets the detention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gets	cc
4	Kojo	Kojo	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 detention	det
7	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Kojo	the detention					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, Miss will let him off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 let	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let off	future	Miss	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

No, because Miss hates brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hates	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hates	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 hates	mark
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hates	nsubj
5	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Miss	brothers					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, he still said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 said	ccomp
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	it			still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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