Test 19 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

heard Isla cried at the awards and everyone's saying she was sad she didn't win more

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Isla, everyone · What happens: hear, cry, say, be, not win · To what, where: awards, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Isla	Isla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 awards	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 awards	det
6	awards	award	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cried	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 saying	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 saying	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	aux
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 heard	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sad	cop
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saying	ccomp
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 win	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 win	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 win	advmod
17	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sad	parataxis
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	past	Isla		the awards		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at award=Location
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Isla			sad property	tree rules
5	not win	past · do-support	Isla	more			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality

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

It means she was pretending to be upset

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretending	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretending	aux
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 means	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	8 upset	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 upset	cop
8	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pretend	past · progressive	she		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	she not said here	upset property	tree rules

Option 2

It must be true, crying always means sadness

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	4 true	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crying	punct
6	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 true	advcl
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crying	ccomp
9	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	It		true property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	mean	present		sadness	always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Topic

Option 3

It proves she was jealous of the others

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jealous	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jealous	cop
5	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 others	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she					of the others; jealous property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People can cry when happy or proud, so the rumour may be wrong; ask her if she is okay

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cry	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 happy	advmod
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cry	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 proud	cc
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 happy	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 wrong	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rumour	det
11	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wrong	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wrong	cop
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cry	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cry	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ask	iobj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 okay	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 okay	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 okay	cop
21	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ask	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	can	People			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	may	the rumour		wrong property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	People not said here	her = she		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	she		okay property	tree rules

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