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Test 8 · ★★★ · Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody expla…

Hamid, fed up: «If one more auntie pinches my cheek I'm gonna scream». What's a better move?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one more auntie pinches · What happens: feed up, be · To what, where: Hamid, gonna scream, better move · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 511 «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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: Hamid, fed up: «If one more auntie pinches my cheek I'm gonna scream».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hamid	Hamid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 fed	compound:prt
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 scream	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 pinches	mark
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pinches	nummod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 pinches	amod
10	auntie	auntie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pinches	compound
11	pinches	pinch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 scream	nsubj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cheek	nmod:poss
13	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pinches	appos
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 scream	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 scream	cop
16	gonna	gonna	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scream	amod
17	scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fed	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 scream	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	participle · passive		Hamid					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	one more auntie pinches	gonna scream					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: What's a better move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 move	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 move	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a better move					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Scream really loud at the next one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scream	scream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 loud	advmod
3	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Scream	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 one	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scream	nmod

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

Option 2

Hide in the toilets all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 toilets	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toilets	det
4	toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hide	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the toilets	night		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in toilet=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pinch the aunties' cheeks back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pinch	pinch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 aunties	det
3	aunties	auntie	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheeks	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 aunties	case
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pinch	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	1 Pinch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	imperative	you not said here	the aunties's cheeks					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Smile, or say politely he'd rather not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smile	smile	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Smile	conj
5	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rather	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 rather	aux
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	4 say	ccomp
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 rather	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	imperative	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here					politely property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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