Test 1 · ★ · Big feelings in big people
Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some muddy boots. Felt rotten after." How does the speaker feel about the shouting now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, speaker · What happens: overhear, lose, feel · To what, where: phone, muddy boots
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 36 «Big feelings in big people» 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: Overheard on the phone: "Yeah, I lost it with the kids over some muddy boots.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 phone | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 phone | det |
| 4 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Overheard | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 7 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 10 lost | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Overheard | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 kids | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kids | det |
| 14 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lost | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 boots | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 boots | det |
| 17 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boots | amod |
| 18 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lost | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Overheard | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | participle | the phone | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | I | phone | some muddy boots | with the kids | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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: Felt rotten after."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Felt | xcomp |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 1 Felt | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Felt | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | after, rotten property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Sentence 3: How does the speaker feel about the shouting now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 shouting | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shouting | det |
| 8 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 feel | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | the speaker | now | about the shouting | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about shouting=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Sorry and bad about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bad | cc |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sorry | conj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bad | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Happy the kids were scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kids | amod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kids | det |
| 3 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Happy kids | scared property | tree rules |
Option 3
Angry all over again at the boots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 again | advmod |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 again | advmod |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Angry | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 boots | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boots | det |
| 7 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Angry | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Proud of how loud it was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 loud | case |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 loud | advmod |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Proud | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loud | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Proud | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | proud property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | it | tree rules |
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