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Test 6 · ★★★ · Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no

«If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch». What's worse than being called a snitch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, everyone · What happens: tell, call, be · To what, where: me, snitch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 75 «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» 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: «If I tell, everyone will call me a snitch».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tell	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 call	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 call	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 call	aux
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 call	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snitch	det
11	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	xcomp
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	I						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call in a quote	future	everyone		me				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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: What's worse than being called a snitch?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 worse	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worse	cop
3	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 worse	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snitch	det
8	snitch	snitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 worse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						bad property	tree rules
2	call	gerund · passive		a snitch					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Missing the bus home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bus	det
3	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Missing	obj
4	home	home	ADV	_	1 Missing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		the bus				home property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus

Option 2

Getting a detention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 detention	det
3	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		a detention					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Losing a mate forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mate	det
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obj
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	1 Losing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		a mate				forever property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality

Option 4

Having to explain it twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 explain	mark
3	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Having	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 explain	obj
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 explain	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund							tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		it				twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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