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Test 7 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong

Your teacher snaps "I've been teaching twenty years!" when you correct him. What now?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, I, you · What happens: snap, teach, correct · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 teacher snaps "I've been teaching twenty years!" when you correct him.

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 teacher	nmod:poss
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snaps	nsubj
3	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 teaching	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teaching	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 teaching	aux
8	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 snaps	conj
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 teaching	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 teaching	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 correct	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 correct	nsubj
15	correct	correct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teaching	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 correct	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	Your teacher						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	teach speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	I				year		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	correct speech: disagree	present	you		teacher				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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 now?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Say sorry, drop it for now, talk to a parent at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Say	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drop	punct
4	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drop	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 now	case
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 drop	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 parent	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 parent	det
12	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	imperative	you not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	drop	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	talk	infinitive	you not said here			home		to a parent	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent

Option 2

Keep correcting him in front of the class until he stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	correcting	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 correcting	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 correcting	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 stops	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stops	nsubj
11	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	correct speech: disagree	gerund	you not said here		him = he	front of the class			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Start crying until he gives in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 gives	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 gives	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	you not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give in	present	he						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Tell him twenty years is too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	obl:unmarked
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present					year	long 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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