Test 5 · ★ · Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness
Kid in the playground: «Free country, I can shove who I like.» What's wrong with that?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid, I · What happens: shove, like, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 33 «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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: Kid in the playground: «Free country, I can shove who I like.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shove | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 playground | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 playground | det |
| 4 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 country | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 country | punct |
| 7 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 country | amod |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kid | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 shove | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 shove | aux |
| 12 | shove | shove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 like | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shove | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shove | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 shove | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove in a quote | can | Kid in the playground and Free country | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot who=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 wrong with that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with that; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only teachers can be shoved freely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 teachers | advmod |
| 2 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shoved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shoved | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shoved | aux:pass |
| 5 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 5 shoved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove | can · passive | teachers | freely property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, shoving is free in a free country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 shoving | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | shoving | shoving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 free | cop |
| 5 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 free | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing shoving | a free country | free property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Free countries have no rules at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 countries | amod |
| 2 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 rules | det |
| 5 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Free countries | no rules | school | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Freedom stops where it hurts other people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 hurts | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hurts | nsubj |
| 5 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | advcl |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurts | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Freedom | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Freedom | other people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient |
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