Test 20 · ★ · Worry and sadness

everyone's whispering Aisha's family lost all their money n they'll be homeless, should i ask her

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, family, they, i · What happens: whisper, lose, be, ask · To what, where: money, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 20 · ★ of lesson 91 «Worry and sadness» 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 whispering	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 whispering	aux
3	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 ask	advcl
4	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 family	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Aisha	case
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whispering	ccomp
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 money	det:predet
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 money	nmod:poss
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
11	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	15 homeless	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 homeless	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 homeless	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 homeless	cop
15	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lost	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whispering	punct
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 ask	aux
18	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ask	nsubj
19	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ask	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lose	past	Aisha's family	their money			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
3	is	future	they			homeless property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	should	i		family		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread it; it may not be true, and money problems are for grown-ups to sort

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 true	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 true	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ups	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ups	cc
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 problems	compound
14	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ups	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ups	cop
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 ups	case
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ups	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 grown	punct
19	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 true	parataxis
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sort	mark
21	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ups	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	not is	may	it		true property	tree rules
3	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	money problems		for grown ups	tree rules
5	sort	to-infinitive				vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, and tell her she might have to move schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 move	mark
10	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	might	she			tree rules
3	move	to-infinitive	she not said here	schools		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme

Option 3

Yes, and tell the class what she says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 says	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the class					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent class=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 4

Yes, go and ask her about it in front of everyone so that it is clear to the whole class

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	iobj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 front	nmod
13	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 clear	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 so	fixed
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 clear	expl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 clear	cop
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 class	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 class	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 class	amod
21	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	her = she	front of everyone	about it	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about it=Topic
3	is	present	you not said here			to the whole class; clear property	tree rules

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