Test 14 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

he's gone red and quiet and his fists are tight but i'm only joking

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he, fists, i · What happens: be, joke

This is test 14 · ★ 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

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 red	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 red	cop
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	amod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 quiet	cc
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tight	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 fists	nmod:poss
9	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tight	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tight	cop
11	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 red	conj
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 joking	cc
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 joking	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 joking	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 joking	advmod
16	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 red	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	he	red property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here		tree rules
3	is	present	his fists	tight property	tree rules
4	joke speech: other	present · progressive	i		vn chit_chat-37.6 «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

Keep going, he will laugh soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 laugh	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laugh	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 laugh	aux
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	go	gerund	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	future	he	soon property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop the joke, he is getting upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joke	det
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 getting	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 getting	aux
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stop	advcl
8	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	the joke					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality joke=Eventuality
2	get	present · progressive	he					upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Poke him to cheer him up a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poke	poke	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poke	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cheer	mark
4	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Poke	ccomp
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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheer	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	cheer up	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he				a bit obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Joke louder so he gets it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Joke	amod
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 gets	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Joke	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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