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Test 3 · ★★ · Dementia and the first death in the family

Torquil, annoyed: «He's told me the ferry story like three times, it's long, man». What would most likely happen if he said «You told me!» every time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story, Torquil, You · What happens: tell, be, happen, say · To what, where: Torquil, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 514 «Dementia and the first death in the family» 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: Torquil, annoyed: «He's told me the ferry story like three times, it's long, man».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Torquil	Torquil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 annoyed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Torquil	punct
3	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 annoyed	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
11	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 story	compound
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 times	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 story	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 long	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 long	cop
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 long	appos
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 man	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 annoyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · passive		Torquil	me				tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	story					long 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: What would most likely happen if he said «You told me!» every time?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl:unmarked
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					time	likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	Torquil						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	You		Torquil				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Grandad would get upset or confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 confused	cc
6	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 upset	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Grandad					upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Grandad's memory would get better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 memory	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandad	case
3	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Grandad's memory					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Grandad would thank him for keeping count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thank	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 thank	aux
3	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 keeping	mark
6	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 thank	advcl
7	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	would	Grandad		him = he				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	keep	gerund	Grandad not said here	count					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Theme

Option 4

Nothing at all would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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