Test 9 · How to check: who, how, who else

"the war pic's well scary, gonna send it to everyone innit" — what is a better step?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: war pic · What happens: be, send · To what, where: pic, everyone innit, better step

This is test 9 of lesson 35 «How to check: who, how, who else» of the politics 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	_	7 scary	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pic	det
3	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pic	compound
4	pic	pic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scary	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scary	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 scary	advmod
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 step	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 send	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 send	dep
10	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 scary	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 send	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 innit	case
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 innit	compound
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 send	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 scary	punct
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 scary	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 step	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 step	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 step	det
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 step	amod
21	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 step	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the war pic			scary, well property	tree rules
2	send in a quote	infinitive		pic	everyone innit		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to innit=Destination
3	is a	present		a better step			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.

The options

Option 1

Hide it and never speak about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hide	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 speak	cc
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 speak	advmod
5	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	conj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	it					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not speak speech: other	infinitive	you not said here					about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Show a trusted adult first and check before sharing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Show	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Show	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 check	cc
7	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Show	conj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 sharing	mark
9	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 check	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	show	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	check	infinitive	you not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	share	gerund	you not said here			tree rules

Option 3

Send it to everyone as fast as possible, so that they can all be ready

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Send	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 everyone	case
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Send	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Send	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 possible	mark
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fast	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 ready	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ready	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ready	aux
14	all	all	ADV	_	16 ready	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ready	cop
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Send	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	imperative	you not said here	it	everyone			fast property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to everyone=Destination
2	is	can	they					all, ready property	tree rules

Option 4

Post it with a scary caption

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Post	post	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Post	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 caption	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 caption	det
5	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caption	amod
6	caption	caption	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Post	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	post	imperative	you not said here	it				with a scary caption	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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