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Test 2 · ★★ · Bets, dares and silly reasons

Mo: "I'm not scared, I just don't want my face to fold in half. Next." What is he showing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mo, I, face · What happens: not be, not want, fold, show · To what, where: face, half

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 169 «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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: Mo: "I'm not scared, I just don't want my face to fold in half.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 scared	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 scared	nsubj
5	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 scared	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 scared	advmod
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 want	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 want	advmod
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 want	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 want	advmod
13	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 scared	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 face	nmod:poss
15	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fold	mark
17	fold	fold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 half	case
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 fold	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Mo					scared property	tree rules
2	not want in a quote	present · do-support	I	my face					tree rules
3	fold not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	my face not said here			half			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: Next."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Next	next	ADV	_	root	root
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Next	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Next	punct

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

Sentence 3: What is he showing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 showing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 showing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 showing	nsubj
4	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 showing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · progressive	Mo						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lemons are dangerous to touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dangerous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	cop
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 touch	mark
5	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dangerous	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lemons					dangerous property	tree rules
2	touch	to-infinitive	Lemons not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He is far too scared to admit it, so he makes up an excuse

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 scared	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 admit	mark
7	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 admit	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 makes	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 makes	nsubj
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 makes	compound:prt
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 excuse	det
15	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					far, scared property	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	make up	present	he	a excuse					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme excuse=Pivot

Option 3

He will do the dare tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 do	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 do	aux
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dare	det
5	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj
6	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saying no to a dare can be a choice with a reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 choice	csubj
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 dare	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dare	det
5	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 choice	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 choice	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 choice	det
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 reason	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 reason	det
12	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		no	a dare				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to dare=Recipient
2	is a	can	Saying	a choice				with a reason	tree rules

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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