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Test 6 · ★ · Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules

Your friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24 hours. What's right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, adult · What happens: not come, say, wait, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 27 «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 friend's brother hasn't come home and an adult says to wait 24 hours.

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	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 friend	case
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 come	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wait	mark
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 says	ccomp
15	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 hours	nummod
16	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wait	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	present	Your friend's brother					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	a adult						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wait	to-infinitive					hour		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

Wait the full 24 hours first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hours	det
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hours	amod
4	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 hours	nummod
5	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wait	obl:unmarked
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				hour	first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only tell the school on Monday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 school	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Monday	case
6	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the school			monday		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Recipient

Option 3

Wait until next week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	ADP	_	4 week	case
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 week	amod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell the police straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 police	det
3	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the police				away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient

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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