Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: tricky comprehension Bethany, Gen Z: "Lily rides her bike every day, it's literally in the text, I'm dead." ("I'm dead" means I'm laughing so hard.) What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gen Z, Z, I · What happens: ride, be, mean, laugh · To what, where: bike, text · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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: Bethany, Gen Z: "Lily rides her bike every day, it's literally in the text, I'm dead."
compound punct compound nsubj punct punct nsubj nmod:poss obj det obl:unmarked punct nsubj cop advmod case det conj punct nsubj cop acl punct punct root Bethany PROPN , PUNCT Gen PROPN Z NOUN : PUNCT " PUNCT Lily PROPN rides VERB her PRON bike NOUN every DET day NOUN , PUNCT it PRON 's AUX literally ADV in ADP the DET text NOUN , PUNCT I PRON 'm AUX dead ADJ . PUNCT " PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 Bethany Bethany PROPN Number=Sing 3 Gen compound 2 , , PUNCT _ 1 Bethany punct 3 Gen Gen PROPN Number=Sing 4 Z compound 4 Z z NOUN Number=Sing 8 rides nsubj 5 : : PUNCT _ 8 rides punct 6 " " PUNCT _ 8 rides punct 7 Lily Lily PROPN Number=Sing 8 rides nsubj 8 rides ride VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 9 her her PRON Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs 10 bike nmod:poss 10 bike bike NOUN Number=Sing 8 rides obj 11 every every DET PronType=Tot 12 day det 12 day day NOUN Number=Sing 8 rides obl:unmarked 13 , , PUNCT _ 19 text punct 14 it it PRON Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs 19 text nsubj 15 's be AUX Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 19 text cop 16 literally literally ADV _ 19 text advmod 17 in in ADP _ 19 text case 18 the the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 19 text det 19 text text NOUN Number=Sing 8 rides conj 20 , , PUNCT _ 23 dead punct 21 I I PRON Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs 23 dead nsubj 22 'm be AUX Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 23 dead cop 23 dead dead ADJ Degree=Pos 19 text acl 24 . . PUNCT _ 8 rides punct 25 " " PUNCT _ 8 rides punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 ride in a quote present Gen Z Lily's bike day vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme 2 is in a quote present Z the text literally property tree rules 3 is in a quote present I the text not said here dead 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: ("I'm dead" means I'm laughing so hard.)
punct punct nsubj cop csubj punct nsubj aux ccomp advmod advmod punct punct root ( PUNCT " PUNCT I PRON 'm AUX dead ADJ " PUNCT means VERB I PRON 'm AUX laughing VERB so ADV hard ADV . PUNCT ) PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 ( ( PUNCT _ 7 means punct 2 " " PUNCT _ 5 dead punct 3 I I PRON Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs 5 dead nsubj 4 'm be AUX Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 5 dead cop 5 dead dead ADJ Degree=Pos 7 means csubj 6 " " PUNCT _ 5 dead punct 7 means mean VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 8 I I PRON Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs 10 laughing nsubj 9 'm be AUX Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 10 laughing aux 10 laughing laugh VERB Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part 7 means ccomp 11 so so ADV _ 12 hard advmod 12 hard hard ADV Degree=Pos 10 laughing advmod 13 . . PUNCT _ 7 means punct 14 ) ) PUNCT _ 7 means punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 is in a quote present I dead property tree rules 2 mean present vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic 3 laugh present · progressive I hard property vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
Sentence 3: What is right?
nsubj cop punct root What PRON is AUX right ADJ ? PUNCT The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 What what PRON PronType=Int 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 _ 3 right punct
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 is present right property tree rules
The options Option 1 · ← Mova's choice The text only says weekends
det nsubj advmod obj root The DET text NOUN only ADV says VERB weekends NOUN The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 The the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 2 text det 2 text text NOUN Number=Sing 4 says nsubj 3 only only ADV _ 4 says advmod 4 says say VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 5 weekends weekend NOUN Number=Plur 4 says obj
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 say speech: assert present the text weekend vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
Option 2 The text says she walks to school
det nsubj nsubj ccomp case obl root The DET text NOUN says VERB she PRON walks VERB to ADP school NOUN The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 The the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 2 text det 2 text text NOUN Number=Sing 3 says nsubj 3 says say VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 4 she she PRON Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs 5 walks nsubj 5 walks walk VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 3 says ccomp 6 to to ADP _ 7 school case 7 school school NOUN Number=Sing 5 walks obl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 say speech: assert present the text vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic 2 walk present text to school result vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer The text only says Mondays
det nsubj advmod obl root The DET text NOUN only ADV says VERB Mondays PROPN The words, one row each (CoNLL-U) # word lemma UPOS features head relation 1 The the DET Definite=Def PronType=Art 2 text det 2 text text NOUN Number=Sing 4 says nsubj 3 only only ADV _ 4 says advmod 4 says say VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin root root 5 Mondays Monday PROPN Number=Plur 4 says obl
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 say speech: assert present the text monday vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
Option 4 She is right: it says every day
nsubj cop punct nsubj parataxis det obj root She PRON is AUX right ADJ : PUNCT it PRON says VERB every DET day NOUN 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 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 _ 6 says punct 5 it it PRON Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs 6 says nsubj 6 says say VERB Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin 3 right parataxis 7 every every DET PronType=Tot 8 day det 8 day day NOUN Number=Sing 6 says obj
# verb tense, mood who what, whom to whom where when other roles by
1 is present She right property tree rules 2 say speech: assert present it day vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
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