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Test 10 · School legends

Nadia's little sister is too scared to use the school toilets because of the ghost story. What's kind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little sister · What happens: be, use · To what, where: school toilets

This is test 10 of lesson 24 «School legends» of the myths 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: Nadia's little sister is too scared to use the school toilets because of the ghost story.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nadia	Nadia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Nadia	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scared	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 use	mark
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scared	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toilets	det
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toilets	compound
12	toilets	toilet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 use	obj
13	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 story	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 because	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 story	compound
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nadia's little sister					scared property	tree rules
2	use	to-infinitive	Nadia's little sister not said here	the school toilets				because the ghost story	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Patient

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 kind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 kind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						kind property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell her it's just a story and go with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 story	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 story	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 story	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 go	cc
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	present	it	a story					tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here					with her = she	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary

Option 2

Tell her to hold it until home time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hold	obj
6	until	until	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	compound
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	it			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Tell her the ghost only comes out at lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ghost	det
4	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 comes	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 lunch	case
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	come out	present	the ghost			lunch			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Laugh and tell everyone she's scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 tell	iobj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
3	is	present	she					scared 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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