Test 11 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is sw…

Be honest, how did the girl act around the two dudes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, do · To what, where: girl act, two dudes

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1231 «Lang's Fairy Books, Pivi and Kabo: Kabo copies Pivi, is swallowed by a shell-fish, and is punished» of the books 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 did	advmod
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 honest	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 act	det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 act	compound
8	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	around	around	ADP	_	12 dudes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dudes	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 dudes	nummod
12	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 act	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	tree rules
2	do	past		the girl act		the two dudes			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Eventuality

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She teased them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teased	nsubj
2	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	past	She	them = they					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

She liked the other one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	the other one					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 3

She ignored him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	She	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She liked his rival more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rival	nmod:poss
4	rival	rival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	his rival					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rival=Theme

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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