Test 6 · ★★ · Friends who cling to a legend

"omg everyone laughed at grace for saying sahara lol" What should a good friend do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, good friend · What happens: laugh, say, do · To what, where: grace, sahara · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct
2	omg	omg	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 grace	case
6	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 saying	mark
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 laughed	advcl
9	sahara	sahara	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	obj
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	17 do	discourse
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 friend	amod
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sahara	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	past	everyone		grace	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	everyone not said here	sahara		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sahara=Topic
3	do	should	a good friend	sahara		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Stand by Grace and point out it's the biggest hot desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 Grace	case
3	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 point	cc
5	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 point	compound:prt
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 desert	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 desert	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 desert	det
10	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 desert	amod
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 desert	amod
12	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 point	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here		by Grace	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grace=Location
2	point out	infinitive	you not said here			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	it	the biggest hot desert		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Say nothing and change the subject

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 change	cc
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Say	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 subject	det
6	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	change	infinitive	you not said here	the subject					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3

Laugh too, so you're not left out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	too	too	ADV	_	1 Laugh	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
6	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 left	advmod
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Laugh	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 left	compound:prt

#	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	not leave out	present · passive		you					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Tell Grace she should've known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 've	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 've	aux
5	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 've	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Grace				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grace=Recipient
2	know	participle	you not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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