Test 2 · ★ · Rumours and gossip
Why can repeating even a TRUE piece of gossip be wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: repeat, be · To what, where: TRUE piece
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 202 «Rumours and gossip» 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 | 3 repeating | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeating | aux |
| 3 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 wrong | csubj |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 piece | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 6 | TRUE | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repeating | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gossip | case |
| 9 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wrong | cop |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | can | a TRUE piece of gossip | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | imperative | you not said here | wrong 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
Because only adults may share news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 share | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 adults | advmod |
| 3 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 share | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 share | aux |
| 5 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 share | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | may | adults | news | tree rules |
Option 2
True things can never hurt anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | can | True things | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It can still embarrass and hurt the person
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 embarrass | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 embarrass | aux |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 embarrass | advmod |
| 4 | embarrass | embarrass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hurt | cc |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 embarrass | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embarrass | can | It | still | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurt | infinitive | the person | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Patient |
Option 4
Because true gossip is always boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 boring | mark |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gossip | amod |
| 3 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boring | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 boring | cop |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 boring | advmod |
| 6 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true gossip | always, boring property | tree rules |
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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