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Test 9 · ★★ · Strangers and tricky people

A friendly man in a park keeps asking a girl where she lives and which school she goes to. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: friendly man, girl, school · What happens: keep, ask, live, go, do · To what, where: girl

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A friendly man in a park keeps asking a girl where she lives and which school she goes to.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 park	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 park	det
6	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asking	obj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lives	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lives	nsubj
13	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 girl	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 goes	cc
15	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	16 school	det
16	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 goes	nsubj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 goes	nsubj
18	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lives	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	18 goes	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a friendly man in a park						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	a friendly man in a park not said here		a girl				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
3	live	present	girl						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	present	which school						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	school						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Tell him, because he seems interested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seems	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 seems	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seems	nsubj
6	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
7	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seems	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	seem	present	he					interested property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Tell him the school but not the name of her street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 school	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 name	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 name	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 street	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 street	nmod:poss
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the school	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient school=Topic
2	name			her street					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

Ask for his address in return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 address	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 address	nmod:poss
4	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 return	case
6	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here			return		for his address	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	address		his = he						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not tell him, move away and tell a trusted adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 move	punct
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
10	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 adult	amod
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	move away	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a trusted adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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