Test 10 · ★ · Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them

Lily: "Is it wrong to have my party when people are sad far away?" Which answer is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily, people, answer · What happens: be, have · To what, where: party · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 51 «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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: Lily: "Is it wrong to have my party when people are sad far away?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wrong	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
4	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	nsubj
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	csubj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 party	nmod:poss
10	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 sad	mark
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sad	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sad	cop
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 have	advcl
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 sad	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Lily		wrong property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	to-infinitive		my party		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	people		away, sad 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: Which answer is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which answer					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No; you can be happy and still care, like putting a coin in the charity box

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 happy	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	cop
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 care	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 care	advmod
9	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 putting	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 putting	mark
12	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 care	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 coin	det
14	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 putting	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 box	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 box	det
17	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	compound
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 putting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	you				happy property	tree rules
2	care	infinitive	you not said here			still		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	put	gerund	you not said here	a coin	the charity box			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coin=Theme in box=Destination

Option 2

No, because faraway people don't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 matter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 matter	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 matter	mark
4	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 matter	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 matter	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 matter	advmod
8	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	faraway people						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes; fun is banned until every war is over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 banned	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	aux:pass
5	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 over	advcl
6	until	until	ADP	_	8 war	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 war	det
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 over	cop
10	over	over	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	present · passive		fun			until every war		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present						over property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes; having a party while others are sad will make things worse over there

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 make	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 make	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 party	det
5	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 having	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 sad	mark
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sad	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 having	advcl
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obj
13	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 make	xcomp
14	over	over	ADV	_	15 there	advmod
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		a party			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient
2	is	present	others			sad property	tree rules
3	make	future	having	things	there	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product

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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