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Test 8 · ★★ · Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no eithe…

The teacher: "Robots? He said uniforms, Lily. Answer what he said." Which reply answers what he said?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: He, you, Lily, reply · What happens: say, answer · To what, where: uniforms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 189 «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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: The teacher: "Robots?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 Robots	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 Robots	punct
5	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teacher	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 teacher	punct

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

Sentence 2: He said uniforms, Lily.

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	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Lily	punct
5	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uniforms	appos
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	He	uniforms					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent uniform=Topic

Sentence 3: Answer what he said."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	obj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Answer	ccomp
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Answer	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Lily						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Sentence 4: Which reply answers what he said?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 reply	det
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answers	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 answers	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	which reply						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	reply						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

"Either uniforms or chaos."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 uniforms	punct
2	Either	either	CCONJ	_	3 uniforms	cc:preconj
3	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 chaos	cc
5	chaos	chaos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uniforms	conj
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uniforms	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 uniforms	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Uniforms can cost a lot for some families."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cost	punct
2	Uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cost	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 families	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 families	det
9	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cost	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cost	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 cost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost in a quote	can	Uniforms	a lot				for some families	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value

Option 3

"You only like uniforms because you're boring."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 like	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 boring	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 boring	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boring	cop
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 like	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like in a quote	present	You	uniforms					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot uniform=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	you					boring property	tree rules

Option 4

"So you want us all to be robots."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
2	So	so	ADV	_	4 want	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 us	nmod:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	9 robots	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 robots	cop
9	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	you	us					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot we=Theme
2	is a not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	us not said here	robots					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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