Test 5 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners
A girl in a wheelchair is in the park and your little brother points. What should you tell him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, your, you · What happens: be, point, tell · To what, where: park, him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: A girl in a wheelchair is in the park and your little brother points.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 park | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wheelchair | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wheelchair | det |
| 5 | wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 park | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 park | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 park | det |
| 9 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 points | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 points | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 points | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 points | compound |
| 14 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 park | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 park | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a girl in a wheelchair | the park and your little brother points | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point | your | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 should you tell him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | should | you | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Point only if she cannot see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Point | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | she | Point not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer point=Stimulus |
Option 2
It is fine to point at things that are new, because that is how children learn
The tree, 16 words
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 | 3 fine | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 point | mark |
| 5 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fine | csubj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 point | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 new | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 new | cop |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 learn | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 learn | mark |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 how | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 how | cop |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 learn | advmod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | point | to-infinitive | things | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | things | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | learn | present | children | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Point more quietly next time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 quietly | advmod |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Point | advmod |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quietly | obl:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Pointing and staring are not kind; she deserves respect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pointing | point | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kind | csubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 staring | cc |
| 3 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Pointing | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 kind | advmod |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 deserves | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 deserves | nsubj |
| 9 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kind | parataxis |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deserves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | Pointing | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deserve | present | she | respect | tree rules |
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