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Test 6 · ★★ · Strangers and tricky people

What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help! This is not my dad!» in a busy shop?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child, This · What happens: happen, shout, not be · To what, where: child, Help, dad, busy shop

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Strangers and tricky people» 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: What would most likely happen if a child shouted «Help!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 child	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 child	acl
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 Help	punct
11	Help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		a child				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	participle	a child not said here	Help					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Topic

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: This is not my dad!» in a busy shop?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 dad	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dad	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 dad	advmod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dad	nmod:poss
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 shop	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shop	det
10	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shop	amod
11	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dad	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	This	my dad		a busy shop			tree rules

The options

Option 1

Everyone would ignore it as a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 ignore	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ignore	aux
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignore	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 joke	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ignore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	would	Everyone	it				as a joke	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The child would be in trouble for shouting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trouble	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 trouble	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 trouble	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 shouting	case
8	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trouble	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the child			trouble		for shouting	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People nearby would notice and come to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	nsubj
2	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	4 notice	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 notice	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	People					nearby property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	infinitive	People not said here						tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive	People not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nobody would understand what was wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wrong	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 understand	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	Nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past						wrong property	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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