Test 16 · Trusted adults and asking for help
Mia says asking for help is babyish. true?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, asking · What happens: say, ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 babyish | csubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 help | case |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 babyish | cop |
| 7 | babyish | babyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | ccomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 says | parataxis |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | asking | babyish 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.
The options
Option 1
Yes, adults get annoyed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | adults | annoyed property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yes, big kids sort things out alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 sort | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kids | amod |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sort | nsubj |
| 5 | sort | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sort | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sort | compound:prt |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 sort | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort out | present | big kids | things | alone property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, asking for help is smart and brave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 smart | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 smart | csubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 help | case |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 smart | cop |
| 7 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brave | cc |
| 9 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 smart | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | asking | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | asking not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, unless you are hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 hurt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 6 hurt | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hurt | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · passive | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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