Test 1 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners
Ben is the tallest boy in Year 5 and gets teased for it. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, truth · What happens: be, tease · To what, where: tallest boy
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 104 «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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: Ben is the tallest boy in Year 5 and gets teased for it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 4 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 boy | amod |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Year | case |
| 7 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nmod |
| 8 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 Year | flat |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 teased | cc |
| 10 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 teased | aux:pass |
| 11 | teased | tease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 boy | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 teased | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 boy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ben | the tallest boy | in Year | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tease | present · passive | Ben not said here | for it | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP» |
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 truth?
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 | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Children grow at different speeds and that is normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 speeds | case |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speeds | amod |
| 5 | speeds | speed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 normal | cc |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 normal | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 normal | cop |
| 9 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grow | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Children | different speeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | normal property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only tall children change as they grow, so he is the odd one out
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 tall | advmod |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 children | amod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 change | nsubj |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | tall children | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | children = child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | he | the odd one | out property | tree rules |
Option 3
He has done something wrong
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 done | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 done | obj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | He | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
Option 4
He should try to stop growing
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 try | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stop | mark |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 try | xcomp |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | should | He | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | He not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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