Test 1 · ★ · Reading faces and voices
Noah's friend laughs loudly, but his eyes stay flat and he quickly looks away. What is a good idea?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, eyes · What happens: laugh, stay, look away, be · To what, where: good idea
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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: Noah's friend laughs loudly, but his eyes stay flat and he quickly looks away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 4 laughs | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stay | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stay | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stay | nsubj |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughs | parataxis |
| 11 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stay | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looks | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 15 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stay | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 looks | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Noah's friend | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | friend's eyes | flat property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look away | present | friend | away, quickly property | 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.
Sentence 2: What is a good idea?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 idea | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 idea | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 idea | amod |
| 5 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 idea | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good idea | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Decide he is having the best day ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 having | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 having | aux |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Decide | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 having | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present · progressive | he | ever; day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Check gently that he is really okay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 1 Check | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 okay | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 okay | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 okay | cop |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 okay | advmod |
| 7 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Check | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | gently property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | he | okay property | tree rules |
Option 3
Tell him to stop laughing at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stop | mark |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | xcomp |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 laughing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Laugh louder to cheer him up more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Laugh | xcomp |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 cheer | mark |
| 4 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Laugh | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cheer | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 cheer | compound:prt |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 cheer | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cheer up | to-infinitive | you not said here | him = he | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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