Test 10 · Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments
Lily's American cousin says, "dude, you were dead to the world, someone got a pic lol." ("Dead to the world" means very deeply asleep.) What should Lily do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: American cousin, you, dude, Lily · What happens: say, be, get, mean, do · To what, where: dude, pic lol · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 11 «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection 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: Lily's American cousin says, "dude, you were dead to the world, someone got a pic lol."
vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
isin a quote
past
you
dude not said here
to the world; dead property
tree rules
3
getin a quote
past
dude
a pic lol
vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lol=Stimulus
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: ("Dead to the world" means very deeply asleep.)
vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell Mum and ask for the photo to be deleted
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
and
and
CCONJ
_
4 ask
cc
4
ask
ask
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
1 Tell
conj
5
for
for
ADP
_
7 photo
case
6
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
7 photo
det
7
photo
photo
NOUN
Number=Sing
4 ask
obl
8
to
to
PART
_
10 deleted
mark
9
be
be
AUX
VerbForm=Inf
10 deleted
aux:pass
10
deleted
delete
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
4 ask
advcl
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
tellspeech: assert
imperative
you not said here
Mum
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2
askspeech: ask
infinitive
you not said here
for the photo
vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3
delete
to-infinitive · passive
you not said here
vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»
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.