Test 3 · Dance: from TikTok dances to ballet

A kid from London says, "Ballet is for girls, bruv." What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, Ballet, best reply · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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: A kid from London says, "Ballet is for girls, bruv."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kid	det
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kid	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 girls	punct
8	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 girls	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 girls	cop
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 girls	case
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 girls	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 girls	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 girls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a kid from London						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Ballet					for girls and bruv	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: What is the best reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best reply						tree rules

The options

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

Many top ballet dancers are men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dancers	amod
2	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dancers	amod
3	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancers	compound
4	dancers	dancer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 men	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 men	cop
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Many top ballet dancers	men					tree rules

Option 2

He is right, boys are not able to do ballet properly at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 able	punct
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 able	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 able	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 able	advmod
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
12	properly	properly	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	not is	present	boys			able property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	boys not said here	ballet	all	properly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ballet=Eventuality

Option 3

Ballet is for girls by law in Britain and most other countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 girls	case
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 law	case
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 girls	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Britain	case
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 law	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 countries	cc
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 countries	amod
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 countries	amod
12	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 girls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ballet					for girls and most other countries; by law in Britain	tree rules

Option 4

Ballet is too easy for boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 easy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 boys	case
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 easy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ballet					for boys; easy property	tree rules

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