Test 12 · Manners and kindness
mum's chatting, i need to ask something, not urgent
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: chatting · What happens: need, ask · To what, where: something
This is test 12 of lesson 51 «Manners and kindness» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chatting | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 mum | case |
| 3 | chatting | chatting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chatting | punct |
| 5 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 need | xcomp |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 ask | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urgent | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 urgent | advmod |
| 12 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | mum's chatting | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | mum's chatting not said here | something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wait for a pause and say excuse me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 pause | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pause | det |
| 4 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 excuse | cc |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 excuse | aux |
| 7 | excuse | excuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 excuse | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | excuse | present | you not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
Option 2
Pull her arm hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arm | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Pull | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | her arm | hard property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
Option 3
Keep talking louder and louder until she stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 louder | nsubj |
| 3 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 louder | cc |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 louder | conj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 stops | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stop | present | she | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4
Shout over her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shout | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | over her = she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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