Test 2 · ★ · Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa

Freya laughs at an old clip of a presenter falling off a stage years ago. Next day a girl at school is teased about an old mistake. What links them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freya, presenter · What happens: laugh, fall off, tease, link · To what, where: old clip, girl, them

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 53 «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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: Freya laughs at an old clip of a presenter falling off a stage years ago.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 clip	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clip	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clip	amod
6	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 presenter	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 presenter	det
9	presenter	presenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clip	nmod
10	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 presenter	acl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 falling	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 years	det
13	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 years	compound
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 falling	obl
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	14 years	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Freya			a old clip of a presenter			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall off	gerund	a presenter not said here				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: Next day a girl at school is teased about an old mistake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teased	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teased	nsubj:pass
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girl	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teased	aux:pass
8	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 mistake	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mistake	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mistake	amod
12	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teased	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 teased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · passive		a girl at school			day	about a old mistake	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Sentence 3: What links them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 links	nsubj
2	links	link	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 links	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 links	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	link	present		them = they					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

The options

Option 1

It's only teasing if it's on TV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teasing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teasing	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 teasing	advmod
4	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 TV	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 TV	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 TV	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 TV	case
9	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teasing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · progressive	It						vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it			TV			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing; famous people's mistakes are different and don't count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 different	punct
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mistakes	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 people	case
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 different	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 different	cop
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 count	cc
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 count	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 count	advmod
12	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 different	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	famous people's mistakes	different property	tree rules
2	not count	present · do-support	famous people's mistakes not said here		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	mistake		famous people		nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Laughing at old mistakes can hurt, on TV or in the playground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hurt	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 mistakes	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mistakes	amod
4	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Laughing	obl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 TV	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 TV	case
9	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 playground	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 playground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 playground	det
13	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 TV	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund				old mistakes			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	can	Laughing			TV or the playground			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The girl should have been on TV too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 TV	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 TV	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 TV	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 TV	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 TV	case
7	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 TV	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should · perfect	the girl			TV			tree rules

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