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Test 3 · Needles and brave faces

Dad says "big boys don't cry" before stitches. What could you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, big boys, you · What happens: say, not cry · To what, where: stitches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine 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: Dad says "big boys don't cry" before stitches.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cry	punct
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boys	amod
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cry	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cry	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cry	advmod
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cry	punct
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 stitches	case
11	stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cry	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not cry speech: express in a quote	present · do-support	big boys			stitches			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before stitch=Location

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 could you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, he's right about that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 right	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					about that; right property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It helps me to hold your hand and cry if I need

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 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hold	mark
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cry	cc
9	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hand	conj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 need	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	me					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	hold	to-infinitive	me not said here	your hand and cry					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	need a condition, not said to happen	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

I promise I'll never cry again, Dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cry	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 cry	advmod
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 cry	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Dad	punct
9	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I					Dad vocative	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not cry speech: express	future	I				again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stitches don't hurt anyone, so it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stitches	stitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 hurt	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fine	expl
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hurt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hurt	present · do-support	Stitches	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient
2	is	present	Stitches not said here					fine property	tree rules

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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