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Test 10 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

Your brother is smug and right about blue whales. What's the honest and fair move?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, honest move · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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 brother is smug and right about blue whales.

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 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smug	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smug	cop
4	smug	smug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 right	cc
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smug	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 whales	case
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whales	amod
9	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 right	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smug	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your brother					smug property	tree rules
2	be		Your brother not said here					about blue whales	tree rules

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 and fair move?

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	7 move	det
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 move	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fair	cc
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 honest	conj
7	move	move	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	the honest move						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Refuse to admit it because he's smug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 admit	mark
3	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refuse	xcomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 admit	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 smug	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smug	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smug	cop
8	smug	smug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 admit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	imperative	you not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not admit speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here	it					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	he					smug property	tree rules

Option 2

Find a dinosaur picture to prove him wrong in front of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 picture	det
3	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picture	compound
4	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Find	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 prove	mark
6	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Find	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prove	obj
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prove	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prove	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 everyone	case
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	a dinosaur picture					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Topic
2	prove	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he		front of everyone		wrong property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Tell Mum he's lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lying	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		Mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lie	present · progressive	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Admit he's right, and ask him not to be mean about your age

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 right	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Admit	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ask	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ask	cc
7	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Admit	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mean	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	12 mean	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 mean	cop
12	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ask	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 age	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 age	nmod:poss
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	imperative	you not said here						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	he					right property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	not is	to-infinitive	you not said here				about your age	mean 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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