Test 7 · ★ · Growing up, honesty and manners

Why should you not stare at someone who acts unusually in public?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not stare, act · To what, where: public

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stare	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stare	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stare	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stare	advmod
5	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 someone	case
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 stare	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 acts	nsubj
9	acts	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 someone	acl:relcl
10	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	9 acts	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 public	case
12	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 acts	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stare	should	you					at someone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at someone=Theme
2	act	present				public		unusually property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It makes them feel uncomfortable and is disrespectful

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 disrespectful	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 disrespectful	cop
8	disrespectful	disrespectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	them = they		tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	them = they not said here		uncomfortable property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present			disrespectful property	tree rules

Option 2

They might stare back at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stare	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stare	aux
3	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 stare	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare back	might	They					at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme

Option 3

Staring at them makes them act even stranger than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Staring	obl
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 makes	obj
6	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	xcomp
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 stranger	advmod
8	stranger	strange	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 act	xcomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 stranger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund			at them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
2	make	present	Staring	them = they		tree rules
3	act	infinitive	them = they not said here		strange property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Staring is only rude at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Staring	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rude	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 rude	advmod
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rude	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	present					night	rude property	tree rules

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