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Test 8 · ★ · Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules

Mum says "sit up straight or you'll grow a hunchback". What's the honest part?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum, you, honest part · What happens: say, sit up, grow, be · To what, where: hunchback · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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: Mum says "sit up straight or you'll grow a hunchback".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sit	compound:prt
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 sit	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 grow	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	aux
10	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sit	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hunchback	det
12	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sit up in a quote	infinitive						straight property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	grow in a quote	future	you	a hunchback					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunchback=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 the honest part?

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the honest part						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Your spine will freeze bent

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 spine	nmod:poss
2	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bent	bent	PROPN	_	4 freeze	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	future	Your spine	bent					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bent=Result

Option 2

You'll grow a hump in a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hump	det
5	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	future	You	a hump			week		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hump=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sitting badly for hours can cause aches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cause	csubj
2	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Sitting	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 hours	case
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sitting	obl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cause	aux
6	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	aches	ache	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund					hour	badly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	can	Sitting	aches					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ache=Patient

Option 4

There's nothing honest in that saying at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 's	expl
2	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 's	nsubj
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 honest	obl
7	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 nothing	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund				all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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