Test 11 · Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet
Tia's friend says shy people "just can't dance". Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, shy people · What happens: say, not dance, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 of lesson 29 «Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet» of the arts 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: Tia's friend says shy people "just can't dance".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tia | Tia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tia | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dance | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 dance | advmod |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 dance | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dance | advmod |
| 11 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dance | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Tia's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not dance in a quote | can | shy people | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Shy people are not allowed to join dance classes in most schools
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 join | mark |
| 7 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 classes | compound |
| 9 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 join | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 schools | case |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 schools | amod |
| 12 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 join | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Shy people | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | join not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shy people not said here | dance classes | most schools | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient |
Option 2
Shyness makes your feet stop working properly whenever music plays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shyness | shyness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | ccomp |
| 6 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 6 working | advmod |
| 8 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 plays | advmod |
| 9 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plays | compound |
| 10 | plays | play | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 working | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Shyness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | your feet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | work | gerund | Shyness not said here | music plays | properly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Only loud people learn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 loud | advmod |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 learn | nsubj |
| 4 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | loud people | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Many dancers are shy off stage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dancers | amod |
| 2 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shy | cop |
| 4 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 stage | case |
| 6 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many dancers | off stage; shy property | tree rules |
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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