Test 10 · Friends, teams and fair play

new kid sat on her own at lunch

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid · What happens: sit · To what, where: own

This is test 10 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» 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	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 own	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 own	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 lunch	case
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	new kid			kid's own		at lunch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on own=Location

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

Leave her, she's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fine	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Leave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	present	she					fine property	tree rules

Option 2

Laugh about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					about it	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tell others to ignore her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ignore	mark
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	others					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ignore not said to happen	to-infinitive	others not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Ask her to join you

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	to	to	PART	_	4 join	mark
4	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	you					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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