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Test 9 · ★★ · The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightm…

Ben's mate says, "touching the switch is just a quirk, everyone does it." When should Ben tell a grown-up?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, touching, everyone, Ben · What happens: say, touch, be, do, tell · To what, where: switch, quirk, grown up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The mind at night: replays, worst-case thinking and nightmares» 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: Ben's mate says, "touching the switch is just a quirk, everyone does it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ben	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quirk	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 touching	punct
7	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 quirk	csubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 switch	det
9	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 touching	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quirk	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 quirk	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 quirk	det
13	quirk	quirk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 does	punct
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 does	nsubj
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quirk	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 does	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 quirk	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 quirk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ben's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	touch in a quote	gerund		the switch					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme switch=Co-Theme
3	is a in a quote	present	touching	a quirk					tree rules
4	do in a quote	present	everyone	switch					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

Sentence 2: When should Ben tell a grown-up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 up	det
6	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 up	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	Ben	a grown up					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Only if the light switch breaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 breaks	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 breaks	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 switch	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 switch	compound
5	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breaks	nsubj
6	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	the light switch						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

When it keeps growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 keeps	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	it						tree rules
2	grow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Never; rules like that always fix themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 fix	advmod
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 rules	punct
3	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fix	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 rules	nmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 fix	advmod
7	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fix	infinitive	rules like that	rules = rule				always property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

Option 4

Only if his mum finds out first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 finds	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 finds	mark
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 finds	compound:prt
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 finds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	present	his mum					first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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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