Test 7 · Greeting adults and teachers
A boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyone giggles. What is the kind view?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, everyone, kind view · What happens: hear, giggle, be · To what, where: classmate call
This is test 7 of lesson 121 «Greeting adults and teachers» 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 boy in Dublin hears a classmate call the teacher "Dad" and everyone giggles.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 7 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | compound |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hears | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teacher | det |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Dad | punct |
| 12 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Dad | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 giggles | cc |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 giggles | nsubj |
| 16 | giggles | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a boy in Dublin | a classmate call the teacher | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | giggle | present | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.
Sentence 2: What is the kind view?
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 | 5 view | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 view | amod |
| 5 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the kind view | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He should be punished for being rude
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 | 4 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 punished | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 punished | aux:pass |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 rude | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rude | cop |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 punished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | should · passive | He | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | rude property | tree rules |
Option 2
He must stand up and apologise to the whole school in assembly
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 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | aux |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stand | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 apologise | cc |
| 6 | apologise | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stand | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 school | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 school | amod |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apologise | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 assembly | case |
| 12 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 apologise | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | must | He | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | apologise speech: apologize | infinitive | He not said here | assembly | to the whole school | tree rules |
Option 3
He should never speak in class again
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 | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | should | He | class | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It happens to almost everyone and teachers are used to it
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 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 everyone | advmod |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 happens | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 used | cc |
| 7 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 happens | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | It | to everyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | present · passive | teachers | it | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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