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Test 9 · ★ · Worry and sadness

Ben thinks he broke his friend's toy at the party but is not sure. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ben · What happens: think, break, not be, do · To what, where: toy, party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ben thinks he broke his friend's toy at the party but is not sure.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toy	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 friend	case
8	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 party	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 party	det
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sure	cc
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sure	advmod
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 broke	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Ben						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	past	Ben	Ben's friend's toy		the party			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toy=Patient
3	not is	present	Ben not said here					sure property	tree rules

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 he 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	Ben						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Decide it was surely him and feel bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 him	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	5 him	advmod
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Decide	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feel	cc
7	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Decide	conj
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	imperative	you not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	him = he				surely property	tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	you not said here					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Secretly buy a new toy and say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 buy	advmod
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toy	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toy	amod
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 buy	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a new toy				secretly property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask his friend about it instead of worrying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 worrying	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	worrying	worry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ask	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		his friend			about friend	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient about it=Topic
2	worry	gerund	you not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Avoid his friend so it never comes up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Avoid	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 comes	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 comes	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 comes	advmod
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Avoid	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 comes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	his friend					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Location
2	not come up	present	friend						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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