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Test 5 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

A boy is teased for being the tallest in his class. What should others know?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: others · What happens: tease, be, know · To what, where: boy, class

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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

Sentence 1: A boy is teased for being the tallest in his class.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teased	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teased	aux:pass
4	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 tallest	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tallest	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tallest	det
8	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 teased	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 class	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 class	nmod:poss
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tallest	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 teased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · passive		a boy					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	gerund				boy's class		tall 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.

Sentence 2: What should others know?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 know	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	should	others						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

He must be much older

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	5 older	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 older	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 older	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 older	advmod
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	He					old property	tree rules

Option 2

Tall children are always clumsy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clumsy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clumsy	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 clumsy	advmod
5	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tall children					always, clumsy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He should try to grow less

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	3 try	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 grow	mark
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	xcomp
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	should	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Height differences are normal and never a reason to tease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 differences	compound
2	differences	difference	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 normal	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 normal	cop
4	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 reason	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 reason	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 reason	det
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 normal	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 tease	mark
10	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reason	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Height differences					normal property	tree rules
2	tease	to-infinitive	Height differences not said here						vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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