Test 7 · ★ · Bad news, protests and helping others

Brother: «Homeless people are just lazy, don't look at him.» What's the fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Homeless people, fair answer · What happens: be, not look

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 32 «Bad news, protests and helping others» of the adult life 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: Brother: «Homeless people are just lazy, don't look at him.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 lazy	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 lazy	punct
4	Homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lazy	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lazy	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 lazy	advmod
8	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Brother	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 look	advmod
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lazy	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Homeless people					lazy property	tree rules
2	not look in a quote	infinitive · do-support						at him = he	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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: What's the fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

He's right, all homeless people are lazy and could get a job tomorrow

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	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lazy	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 people	det
6	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lazy	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lazy	cop
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 get	cc
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 job	det
14	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	is	present	all homeless people			lazy property	tree rules
3	get	could	He not said here	a job	tomorrow		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

People become homeless for many reasons, and he deserves respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 become	nsubj
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 become	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 reasons	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reasons	amod
6	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 homeless	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deserves	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 deserves	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 deserves	nsubj
10	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 become	conj
11	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	People					homeless property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	deserve	present	he	respect					tree rules

Option 3

Looking at him will make him angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 make	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Looking	obl
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						at him = he	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	make	future	Looking	him = he				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Homeless people choose it as a holiday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Homeless	homeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 choose	nsubj
3	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 choose	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 holiday	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 holiday	det
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	Homeless people	it				as a holiday	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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