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Test 3 · Sleepovers and spooky stories

Your little sister hears scratching and screams "GHOST!" What's a kind, true answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, kind true answer · What happens: hear, scratch, scream, be · To what, where: GHOST

This is test 3 of lesson 26 «Sleepovers and spooky stories» 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: Your little sister hears scratching and screams "GHOST!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hears	nsubj
4	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hears	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 screams	cc
7	screams	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hears	conj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 GHOST	punct
9	GHOST	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screams	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 GHOST	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 GHOST	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Your little sister						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	scratch	gerund	Your little sister not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream speech: express	present	Your little sister not said here	GHOST					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Topic

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 a kind, true answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Ignore her, she's being a baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 baby	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 baby	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 baby	cop
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 baby	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ignore	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	her = she					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is a	present	she	a baby					tree rules

Option 2

Scratching on the wall means a ghost wants to come in now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scratching	obl
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ghost	det
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wants	xcomp
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund				the wall			vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wall=Location
2	mean	present	Scratching						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	present	a ghost						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	a ghost not said here				now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's probably mice or a branch; let's check with a light

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	4 mice	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mice	cop
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 mice	advmod
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 branch	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 branch	det
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mice	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 mice	parataxis
10	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 light	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 light	det
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	mice or a branch				probably property	tree rules
2	let	infinitive		's					tree rules
3	check	infinitive	's not said here					with a light	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, it's a ghost, hide under your duvet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ghost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ghost	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ghost	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ghost	det
6	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ghost	punct
8	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 duvet	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 duvet	nmod:poss
11	duvet	duvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a ghost					tree rules
2	hide	infinitive	a ghost			your duvet			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under duvet=Location

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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