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Test 8 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

A new boy arrives at school and does not speak the language well. What is the kind thing to do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy, kind thing · What happens: arrive, not speak, be, do · To what, where: school, language · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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 new boy arrives at school and does not speak the language well.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrives	nsubj
4	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrives	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 speak	cc
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 speak	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 speak	advmod
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arrives	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 language	det
12	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speak	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 speak	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	a new boy			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not speak speech: other	present · do-support	a new boy not said here	the language				well property	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: What is the kind thing to do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kind thing						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	the kind thing not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Laugh at his mistakes so he learns faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 mistakes	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mistakes	nmod:poss
4	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Laugh	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 learns	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 learns	nsubj
7	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 learns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			his mistakes			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	learn	present	he					fast property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mistake		his = he						nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ignore him until he learns the language

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignore	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 learns	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learns	nsubj
5	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Ignore	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 language	det
7	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 learns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	learn	present	he	the language					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Help him and include him in games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Help	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 include	cc
4	include	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Help	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 include	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 games	case
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 include	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
2	include	present	you not said here	him = he				in games goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme in game=Goal

Option 4

Tell him to go to another school instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 school	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 school	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			another school		instead property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

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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