Test 3 · ★ · Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult

★ «this guy online said everyone tells him their school so it's no biggie» Why is «everyone does it» a warning sign here?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, everyone, school · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: school, guy, biggie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 51 «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the language 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 guy	det
4	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
5	online	online	ADV	_	4 guy	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 tells	nsubj
8	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tells	iobj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 school	nmod:poss
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 biggie	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 biggie	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 biggie	cop
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 biggie	det
16	biggie	biggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tells	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 biggie	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	22 does	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 does	cop
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 does	punct
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	22 does	nsubj
22	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tells	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 does	obj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 does	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sign	det
26	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sign	compound
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 does	obj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 does	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	★					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	everyone	their school	guy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient school=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	school	no biggie				tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	everyone			here	do 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.

The options

Option 1

It is a warning sign only if he's rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sign	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sign	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sign	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sign	compound
5	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 rude	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 rude	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rude	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rude	cop
10	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sign	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a warning sign					tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	he	a warning sign not said here				rude property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It means the school has said it's okay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 school	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj:pass
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 okay	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 okay	cop
9	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the school		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	is	present	school		okay property	tree rules

Option 3

It shows he is a famous gamer that everyone can trust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	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	7 gamer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gamer	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gamer	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gamer	amod
7	gamer	gamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 trust	mark
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 trust	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 trust	aux
11	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gamer	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	show	present	It		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	he	a famous gamer	tree rules
3	trust	can	everyone	a famous gamer not said here	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gamer=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A stranger is making a big private thing sound small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
7	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sound	nsubj
9	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 making	xcomp
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	a stranger						tree rules
2	sound	infinitive	a big private thing					small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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