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Test 9 · ★★★ · Life and death: putting it all together

«My mate said he don't wanna be alive no more, but he's probs joking,» says a boy in Sydney (probs = probably). What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, probs, boy · What happens: say, not do, be, joke, do · To what, where: probs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 80 «Life and death: putting it all together» 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: «My mate said he don't wanna be alive no more, but he's probs joking,» says a boy in Sydney (probs = probably).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
8	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	10 alive	dep
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 alive	cop
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	advcl
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 alive	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 says	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 probs	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 probs	cop
17	probs	prob	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 says	ccomp
18	joking	joke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 probs	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 joking	punct
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 says	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 Sydney	case
25	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 boy	nmod
26	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 probs	punct
27	probs	prob	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 boy	appos
28	=	=	SYM	_	29 probably	punct
29	probably	probably	ADV	_	27 probs	advmod
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 probs	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not do in a quote	infinitive	mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	infinitive	mate not said here					alive property	tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	mate	probs					tree rules
5	joke speech: other in a quote	gerund	probs not said here						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	present	a boy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Ignore it if it sounded like a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sounded	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	advcl
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 joke	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	sound a condition, not said to happen	past	it					like a joke	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Keep it secret to be loyal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	6 loyal	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 loyal	cop
6	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 secret	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	it				secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					loyal property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell an adult straight away anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult			anyway, away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4

Laugh so his mate feels better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 feels	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mate	nmod:poss
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feels	nsubj
5	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	advcl
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	his mate					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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