Test 8 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

Why is it wise to ask rather than guess how someone feels?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone · What happens: be, ask, guess, feel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wise	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wise	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wise	expl
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wise	csubj
7	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 guess	cc
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 rather	fixed
9	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	conj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 feels	advmod
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 feels	nsubj
12	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 guess	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present		wise property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guess	infinitive			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel	present	someone		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Everyone misreads faces sometimes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 misreads	nsubj
2	misreads	misread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 misreads	obj
4	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 misreads	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misread	present	Everyone	faces				sometimes property	tree rules

Option 2

Guessing is against school rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guessing	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rules	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rules	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 rules	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rules	compound
5	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	gerund							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						against Guessing school rules	tree rules

Option 3

Asking always makes people angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 Asking	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund						always property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Asking	people				angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product

Option 4

Faces never show any feelings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 show	advmod
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 feelings	det
5	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not show	present	Faces	any feelings					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/14-faces-and-voices/t8/