Test 15 · ★★★ · Thinking cleverly about people

this guy knows my school and my dog's name so he must be legit

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy, dog · What happens: know, be, name · To what, where: school

This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 guy	det
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 school	nmod:poss
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 name	cc
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dog	nmod:poss
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 dog	case
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knows	conj
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 legit	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 legit	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 legit	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 legit	cop
15	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knows	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	this guy	my school		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer school=Stimulus
2	is	must	guy		legit property	tree rules
3	name		my dog			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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

Yes, so give him your address

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 address	nmod:poss
7	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	your address	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient address=Theme
2	address		your						nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yes, so meet him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 meet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 meet	advmod
4	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not true, he may have read it online

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 read	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 read	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 read	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 read	aux
7	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 true	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 read	obj
9	online	online	ADV	_	7 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	may · perfect	he	it				online property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, only friends know that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 friends	advmod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	friends						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «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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