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Test 5 · ★ · Debating and discussion

Your mate snaps, "Shut it, homework's well useful, you're just lazy." What is wrong with his point?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, homework, you, his · What happens: snap, shut, be, point · To what, where: mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 49 «Debating and discussion» of the English 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: Your mate snaps, "Shut it, homework's well useful, you're just lazy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snaps	nsubj
3	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Shut	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Shut	punct
6	Shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 snaps	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Shut	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 useful	punct
9	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 useful	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 useful	cop
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 useful	advmod
12	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Shut	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lazy	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 lazy	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 lazy	cop
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 lazy	advmod
17	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 useful	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snaps	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 snaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	Your mate						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shut in a quote	infinitive	Your mate not said here	mate					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	homework					useful, well property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	you					lazy property	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 wrong with his point?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 point	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 point	nmod:poss
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrong	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with his point; wrong property	tree rules
2	point		his = he						nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It gives far too much evidence

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	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 much	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 evidence	amod
6	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	much evidence					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It attacks a person and gives no evidence

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	2 attacks	nsubj
2	attacks	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attacks	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gives	cc
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 attacks	conj
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 evidence	det
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	present	It	a person					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient
2	give	present		no evidence					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme

Option 3

It is much too polite to work

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	5 polite	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	5 polite	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 polite	advmod
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 polite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					polite property	tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing; it is a perfect point

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	_	7 point	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 point	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 point	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 point	det
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 point	amod
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a perfect point					tree rules

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