Test 9 · ★★ · Promises, memory and keeping each other safe
«Why give Grandad's coat to the charity shop? That's cold, bro,» says Ethan's cousin (cold = heartless). What's a better view?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, That, better view · What happens: give, be, say · To what, where: coat, charity shop, cousin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: «Why give Grandad's coat to the charity shop?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
«
«
PUNCT
_
3 give
punct
2
Why
why
ADV
PronType=Int
3 give
advmod
3
give
give
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
root
root
4
Grandad
Grandad
PROPN
Number=Sing
6 coat
nmod:poss
5
's
's
PART
_
4 Grandad
case
6
coat
coat
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 give
obj
7
to
to
ADP
_
10 shop
case
8
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
10 shop
det
9
charity
charity
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 shop
compound
10
shop
shop
NOUN
Number=Sing
3 give
obl
11
?
?
PUNCT
_
3 give
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
givein a quote
imperative
you not said here
Grandad's coat
the charity shop
vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent coat=Theme to shop=Recipient
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 family=Recipient clause=Topic
2
notlove
past
him = he
all
vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3
keep
would
they
family
vn keep-15.2 «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.