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Test 7 · ★★ · Promises, memory and keeping each other safe

«Grandad was a right grumpy git, can I say that?» asks Oscar from Bristol. Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad, Oscar · What happens: be, say, ask · To what, where: right grumpy git, that, Bristol · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» 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

Sentence 1: «Grandad was a right grumpy git, can I say that?» asks Oscar from Bristol.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 git	punct
2	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 git	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 git	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 git	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 git	amod
7	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asks	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 git	conj
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 say	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 git	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 git	punct
15	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 asks	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Bristol	case
18	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 asks	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Grandad	a right grumpy git					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	can	Oscar	that					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	present	Oscar			Bristol			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and say even worse things about him too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 say	cc
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 worse	advmod
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 things	nmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	4 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	worse things				about him = he	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

Option 2

Never say anything true about him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 say	advmod
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 say	obj
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 true	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	anything				true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 3

No, because the dead were all perfect people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 dead	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dead	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 people	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	9 people	advmod
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		dead perfect people				all property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You can be honest, but say it kindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 honest	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 honest	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 honest	cop
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 honest	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 say	obj
9	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	7 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	You					honest property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	You not said here	it				kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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