Test 1 · ★★★ · Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret
Your mate: "I don't wanna hear it, it's mean." Is she being boring?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, mate, she · What happens: not wanna, hear, be · To what, where: mate
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Rumours about classmates and what to do with a secret» 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: Your mate: "I don't wanna hear it, it's mean."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanna | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanna | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wanna | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wanna | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 wanna | advmod |
| 8 | wanna | wanna | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 mate | acl:relcl |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanna | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mate | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | cop |
| 14 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wanna in a quote | present · do-support | I | Your mate not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | mate | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Your mate | mean 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: Is she being boring?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boring | cop |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 boring | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 boring | cop |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 boring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | boring property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, she should listen to it all first and then decide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 listen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | aux |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 listen | obl |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 first | advmod |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 listen | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 decide | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 decide | advmod |
| 12 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 listen | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | should | she | it | first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | |||
| 2 | decide | present | she not said here | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
No, she just already knows the story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 knows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knows | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 knows | advmod |
| 5 | already | already | ADV | _ | 6 knows | advmod |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | she | the story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, refusing to listen to cruel gossip stops it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 refusing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stops | csubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 refusing | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 gossip | case |
| 7 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gossip | amod |
| 8 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | obl |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stops | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | gerund | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not listen | to-infinitive | to cruel gossip | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to gossip=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | refusing | gossip | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
Option 4
Yes, she'll miss all the good stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 miss | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 miss | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 miss | aux |
| 5 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 stories | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stories | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stories | amod |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 miss | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | future | she | all good stories | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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