Test 18 · Trusted adults and asking for help
my mate reckons u should only ask for help when it's really bad, otherwise ur a baby
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: reckon, ask, be
This is test 18 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 ask | advmod |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reckons | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 bad | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bad | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bad | cop |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 bad | advmod |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ask | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 otherwise | punct |
| 16 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 3 reckons | advmod |
| 17 | ur | ur | ADP | _ | 19 baby | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 baby | det |
| 19 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 otherwise | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | my mate | otherwise property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | should | u | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | mate | bad 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wrong; asking for help early makes most problems easier to fix
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 asking | amod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wrong | punct |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 makes | csubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 help | case |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asking | obl |
| 6 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 asking | advmod |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 problems | amod |
| 9 | problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fix | mark |
| 12 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 easier | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help; early property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | asking | most problems | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset problem=Product | |||
| 3 | fix | to-infinitive | most problems not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
He is right, wait until it is very bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 bad | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bad | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bad | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 bad | advmod |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | it | bad property | tree rules |
Option 3
He is right, only babies ask for help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 babies | advmod |
| 6 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | babies | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
He is right, help is only for emergencies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 emergencies | punct |
| 5 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 emergencies | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 emergencies | cop |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 emergencies | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 emergencies | case |
| 9 | emergencies | emergency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | help | for emergencies | tree rules |
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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