Test 9 · Psalms and Proverbs

mum says «walk with the wise» cos my new mates keep getting detentions. what does she mean

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum, new mates · What happens: say, walk, keep, get, mean · To what, where: detentions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 11 «Psalms and Proverbs» of the religion ethics 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	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 wise	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wise	det
7	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walk	obl
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 keep	mark
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mates	nmod:poss
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mates	amod
12	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 keep	nsubj
13	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	advcl
14	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 keep	xcomp
15	detentions	detention	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 getting	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 mean	obj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mean	aux
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 mean	nsubj
20	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mum			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk in a quote	infinitive			with the wise	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	present	my new mates			tree rules
4	get	gerund	my new mates not said here	detentions		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus
5	mean	present · do-support	mum			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

We should walk to school instead of driving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 driving	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	should	We					to school result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result
2	drive	gerund	We not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only clever people are allowed friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		clever people					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 3

We must never talk to anyone in detention

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 talk	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 talk	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 detention	case
8	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	must	We			detention		to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The friends we choose shape who we become

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 friends	det
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shape	nmod:poss
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 choose	nsubj
4	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friends	acl:relcl
5	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 become	nsubj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 become	nsubj
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	we	the friends not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	become	present	the friends's shape						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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