Test 6 · Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback
Isla cries "all arvo" ("arvo" means afternoon) over a mean comment. Whose feedback is worth listening to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Isla, arvo, feedback · What happens: cry, mean, be, listen · To what, where: arvo, mean comment
This is test 6 of lesson 38 «Praise and criticism: giving and taking feedback» 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: Isla cries "all arvo" ("arvo" means afternoon) over a mean comment.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cries | nsubj |
| 2 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 arvo | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 arvo | det |
| 5 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cries | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 arvo | punct |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 arvo | punct |
| 9 | arvo | arvo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 arvo | punct |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cries | conj |
| 12 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obj |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 comment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 comment | det |
| 16 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 comment | amod |
| 17 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cries | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | Isla | all arvo | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arvo=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | arvo | a mean comment | afternoon | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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: Whose feedback is worth listening to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 2 feedback | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | cop |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 worth | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 listening | fixed |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | feedback | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | feedback not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nobody at all, ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nobody | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ever | punct |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 1 Nobody | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only the meanest comments, as they are honest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 comments | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 comments | det |
| 3 | meanest | mean | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 comments | amod |
| 4 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 honest | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 honest | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 honest | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 honest | cop |
| 9 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comments | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | comments = comment | the meanest comments not said here | honest property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
People who know her and want her to improve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 want | cc |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 want | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 improve | mark |
| 9 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | People | her = she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | present | People not said here | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | improve not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Every stranger who comments on any video
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comments | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 comments | nsubj |
| 4 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 video | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 video | det |
| 7 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comments | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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