Test 5 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

«why don't u just tell us why ur parents split, it's not a big deal». Must Ffion?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents, it · What happens: not tell, split, not be · To what, where: us, big deal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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: «why don't u just tell us why ur parents split, it's not a big deal».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 tell	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tell	advmod
5	u	u	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	iobj
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 split	advmod
10	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parents	nmod:poss
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 split	nsubj
12	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 deal	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 split	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 deal	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 deal	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 deal	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 deal	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · do-support			us	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	split in a quote	past	ur's parents			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not is a in a quote	present	it	a big deal		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: Must Ffion?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Ffion	aux
2	Ffion	Ffion	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Ffion	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, or she's a liar and a snake to her mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 liar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 liar	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 liar	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liar	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 liar	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 liar	det
7	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 snake	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liar	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mates	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mates	nmod:poss
13	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 liar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a liar and a snake				to snake's mates	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's private, and «Dunno» is allowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 private	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 private	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 private	cop
5	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 allowed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 allowed	cc
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Dunno	punct
9	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 allowed	nsubj:pass
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Dunno	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 allowed	aux:pass
12	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 private	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					private property	tree rules
2	allow	present · passive		Dunno					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, friends must share every secret

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 share	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 share	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 share	aux
5	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 secret	det
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	must	friends	every secret					tree rules

Option 4

No, but she must tell a teacher why

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	must	she		a teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

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