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Test 4 · ★ · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel

Mum: "That's the saltiest cake in history. Absolute weapon, Kai. Teaspoon's the small one, love." How can you tell this is friendly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, Teaspoon, you, this · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: saltiest cake, history, small one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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: Mum: "That's the saltiest cake in history.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 cake	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cake	punct
4	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cake	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cake	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cake	det
7	saltiest	salty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 cake	amod
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mum	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 history	case
10	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cake	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the saltiest cake		history			tree rules

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: Absolute weapon, Kai.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 weapon	amod
2	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Kai	punct
4	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 weapon	appos
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 weapon	punct

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

Sentence 3: Teaspoon's the small one, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teaspoon	Teaspoon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 love	punct
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	vocative
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Teaspoon	the small one				love vocative	tree rules

Sentence 4: How can you tell this is friendly?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tell	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 friendly	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	cop
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	you						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	this					friendly property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody explains the mistake to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 explains	nsubj
2	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mistake	det
4	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explains	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 explains	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	Nobody	the mistake	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 2

Kai leaves the room upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	Kai	the room				upset property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

Option 3

Mum shouts at him in front of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	nsubj
2	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouts	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shouts	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Mum			front of everyone		at him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Kai laughs too, and Mum tells him which spoon is right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	2 laughs	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tells	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tells	cc
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tells	nsubj
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 laughs	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	iobj
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 spoon	det
10	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tells	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Kai						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	Mum		Kai				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	present	which spoon					right property	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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