Test 2 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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

Faces always show exactly what people feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 show	advmod
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 what	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 feel	obj
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Faces					always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	feel	present	people						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 2

Someone who cries must be sad, every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 sad	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 cries	nsubj
3	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Someone	acl:relcl
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sad	cop
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	must	Someone				time	sad property	tree rules

Option 3

Only grown-ups show feelings on their faces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 ups	advmod
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ups	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grown	punct
4	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 faces	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 faces	nmod:poss
9	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	present	grown ups	feelings		ups's faces			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Words and face can sometimes say different things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 face	cc
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Words	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	Words and face	different things				sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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