Test 5 · ★★★ · Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back
Lily's friend goes, "I can't go to Miss alone, I'll die of cringe." ("Cringe" means embarrassment.) What helps?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, I, Cringe · What happens: go, not go, die, mean, help · To what, where: Miss, embarrassment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» 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 friend goes, "I can't go to Miss alone, I'll die of cringe."
vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2
notgoin a quote
can
I
Miss
alone property
vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to miss=Initial_Location
3
diein a quote
future
I
of cringe
vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cringe=Causer
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.
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2
sort outnot said to happen
to-infinitive
it
herself = sheobl
vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
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.