Test 17 · Greeting friends and relatives

apparently Grace ignored everyone for a week n "now she's got zero friends forever". what's probs exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace · What happens: ignore, get, be, exaggerate · To what, where: everyone, probs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 of lesson 122 «Greeting friends and relatives» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	3 ignored	advmod
2	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ignored	nsubj
3	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 ignored	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 n	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 n	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 n	compound
8	n	n	NOUN	_	3 ignored	obl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 n	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 got	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 got	aux
13	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ignored	parataxis
14	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 friends	nummod
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forever	obl:unmarked
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ignored	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 probs	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 probs	cop
21	probs	prob	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ignored	parataxis
22	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 probs	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	Grace	everyone		for a week n; apparently property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	present · passive	Grace		now	forever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present		probs			tree rules
4	exaggerate	participle		probs not said here			tree rules

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

That ignoring friends' hellos for a week makes them feel hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ignoring	nsubj
2	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	csubj
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hellos	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 friends	case
5	hellos	hello	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ignoring	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 week	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ignoring	obl
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ignore	gerund	That	friends's hellos	week	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Theme
2	make	present	ignoring	hellos = hello		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	hellos = hello not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	hurt	participle	hellos = hello not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

That friends may stop asking her to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 friends	det
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asking	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	stop	may	that friends		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	that friends not said here	her = she	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	that friends not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Zero friends forever; but ignoring friends does hurt them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 friends	nummod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 friends	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
6	ignoring	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 hurt	csubj
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ignoring	obj
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 friends	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	gerund		friends					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	hurt	present · do-support	ignoring	friends = friend					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 4

That she can say sorry and say hi again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 say	nsubj:outer
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 say	cc
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
8	hi	hi	INTJ	_	7 say	obj
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	can	That					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	That not said here				again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hi=Topic

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