Test 11 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

that man's talking to himself on the bus, look lol

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man · What happens: talk, look · To what, where: man, bus

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	aux
4	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 himself	case
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 talking	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bus	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bus	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 look	punct
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 talking	parataxis
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	11 look	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present · progressive	that man		man	the bus			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent
2	look	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Copy him to make friends laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Copy	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Copy	advcl
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	copy	imperative	you not said here	him = he	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	friends	tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	friends not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Do not stare or point, it is disrespectful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stare	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 stare	advmod
3	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 point	cc
5	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stare	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stare	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 disrespectful	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 disrespectful	cop
9	disrespectful	disrespectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stare	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not stare	imperative · do-support	you not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	point	infinitive	you not said here		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	disrespectful property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Laugh quietly behind your hand so he does not notice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Laugh	advmod
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 hand	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laugh	obl
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 notice	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 notice	nsubj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 notice	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 notice	advmod
10	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Laugh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here			your hand		quietly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not notice	present · do-support	he						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Point so your friend can see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Point	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	your friend	Point not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer point=Stimulus

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