Test 8 · The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"
Leo: "I'm the one who TOLD you about it, Sir. That's like blaming the fire alarm for the fire." What should the teacher have done first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, one, That, teacher · What happens: be, tell, blame, do · To what, where: one, you, fire alarm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 of lesson 168 «The whole class punished, and "you didn't say no"» of the world 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: Leo: "I'm the one who TOLD you about it, Sir.
vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about it=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.
Sentence 2: That's like blaming the fire alarm for the fire."
vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leo=Recipient
2
see
past
Leo
vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
Option 4
Called Leo's parents straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Called
call
VERB
Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass
root
root
2
Leo
Leo
PROPN
Number=Sing
4 parents
nmod:poss
3
's
's
PART
_
2 Leo
case
4
parents
parent
NOUN
Number=Plur
1 Called
obj
5
straight
straight
ADV
_
6 away
advmod
6
away
away
ADV
_
1 Called
advmod
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
call
participle
Leo's parents
away property
vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
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.