Test 18 · ★ · Getting better, caring for others and medicines

everyone's saying Ella has diabetes cos she ate too many sweets, should i tell people

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, Ella, i · What happens: say, have, eat, tell · To what, where: diabetes, many sweets, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 82 «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 saying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	aux
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
6	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 ate	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ate	nsubj
9	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sweets	amod
12	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ate	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saying	advcl
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	Ella	diabetes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diabetes=Patient
3	eat	past	Ella	many sweets		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	should	i		people	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, that's untrue gossip; be kind and know how to help her

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gossip	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 gossip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gossip	cop
5	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gossip	amod
6	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 No	appos
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	conj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 help	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 help	mark
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	untrue gossip			tree rules
2	is	imperative	you not said here			kind property	tree rules
3	know	present	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	help	to-infinitive			her = she		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, everyone should know it is her fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 know	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fault	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fault	cop
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fault	nmod:poss
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	her fault					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, and stop her from ever eating at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stop	cc
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obj
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	8 eating	mark
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 eating	advmod
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stop	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	you not said here			school	ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only tell people who sit near her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tell	iobj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sit	nsubj
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		people				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	sit	present	people					near her = she	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location

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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