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Test 3 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no

A boy in Texas needs to talk to someone in private but cannot tell his family. Which number can he call?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, number · What happens: need, talk, not tell, call · To what, where: family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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 boy in Texas needs to talk to someone in private but cannot tell his family.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 talk	mark
7	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 needs	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 talk	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 private	case
11	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 someone	nmod
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 needs	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 family	nmod:poss
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	a boy in Texas						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Texas not said here					to someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent
3	not tell speech: assert	can	a boy in Texas not said here	boy's family					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=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.

Sentence 2: Which number can he call?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 number	det
2	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 call	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	can	which number						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

999

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	999	999	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	000	000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

988

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	988	988	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

111

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	111	111	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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