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Test 8 · ★★ · Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs

Kofi's classmate keeps asking, "was there bombs? did you see dead people?" What's the kinder thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmate, bombs, you, kinder thing · What happens: keep, ask, be, see, do · To what, where: bombs, there, dead people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Scary things in the world: news, strangers, war and what-ifs» 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: Kofi's classmate keeps asking, "was there bombs? did you see dead people?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 classmate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kofi	case
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 asking	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 keeps	xcomp
10	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keeps	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 keeps	parataxis
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 people	amod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Kofi's classmate	bombs					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	bombs not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	bombs not said here	there					tree rules
4	see in a quote	past · do-support	you	dead people					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=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: What's the kinder thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kinder thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the kinder thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Avoid him so you don't say the wrong thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Avoid	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Avoid	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location
2	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	you	the wrong thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not push him with war questions; just be a kind classmate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 push	advmod
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 push	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 questions	case
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 questions	compound
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 push	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 push	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	12 classmate	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 classmate	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 classmate	det
11	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 classmate	amod
12	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not push	imperative	you not said here	him = he				with war questions	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is a	infinitive		a kind classmate					tree rules

Option 3

Tell the whole class his story for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 class	amod
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the whole class				for him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent class=Recipient story=Topic

Option 4

Keep asking so he gets it all out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 gets	advcl
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 gets	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	he not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	he	it				out property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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