Test 15 · Trusted adults and asking for help

told my teacher something bad and she didn't help

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher · What happens: tell, not help · To what, where: something, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 of lesson 56 «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 teacher	nmod:poss
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 told	iobj
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 told	obj
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 help	advmod
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 told	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past		something	my teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient something=Topic
2	not help	past · do-support	teacher						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Keep telling other trusted adults until someone helps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 adults	amod
4	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 adults	amod
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 telling	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 helps	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 helps	nsubj
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 telling	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	other trusted adults	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	trust	participle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	help	present	someone		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sort it out by yourself, you're old enough now to handle it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sort	sort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sort	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Sort	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 yourself	case
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Sort	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 old	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 old	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 old	cop
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sort	parataxis
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 old	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 old	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 handle	mark
13	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 old	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 handle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sort out	imperative	you not said here	it		by yourself	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	you		now	enough, old property	tree rules
3	handle	to-infinitive	you not said here	it			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Never tell anyone again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 tell	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		anyone		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient

Option 4

Give up, nobody cares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cares	punct
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 cares	nsubj
5	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	care	present	nobody						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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