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Test 12 · Check the claim, not the person

A teacher in Delhi: "Pictures left or right? Do the needful, children, not the friend list." What should decide?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: leave, do, decide · To what, where: Pictures, needful

This is test 12 of lesson 188 «Check the claim, not the person» 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: A teacher in Delhi: "Pictures left or right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Delhi	case
4	Delhi	Delhi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 teacher	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Pictures	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Pictures	punct
7	Pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teacher	conj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Pictures	acl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 right	cc
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 teacher	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	participle		Pictures not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Do the needful, children, not the friend list."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 needful	det
3	needful	needful	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 children	punct
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needful	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 list	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 list	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 list	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 list	compound
10	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needful	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	the needful and children and the friend list					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needful=Eventuality

Sentence 3: What should decide?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 decide	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 decide	aux
3	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	should							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Who has known whom the longest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 known	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 known	aux
3	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 longest	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 longest	det
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 known	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · perfect · passive						long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

Who is friends with whom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 friends	obl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 friends	cop
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 friends	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		friends					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

What makes the project better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 project	det
4	project	project	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		the project					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material project=Product

Option 4

Who sits nearest the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 sits	nsubj
2	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 teacher	amod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present		the nearest teacher					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location teacher=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.

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