Test 12 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

maths is too easy, so boring

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maths · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 easy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 easy	advmod
4	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boring	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 boring	advmod
7	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 easy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	maths					easy property	tree rules
2	be		maths not said here						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

Just stop doing the work, they can't make you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 stop	advmod
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 work	det
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 make	advmod
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stop	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	do	gerund	you not said here	the work	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	not make	can	they	you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 2

Mess around in class till it's over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	around	around	ADP	_	4 class	case
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mess	nmod
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 over	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 over	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 over	cop
8	over	over	ADV	_	1 Mess	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	class	Mess around class not said here				over property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Politely ask the teacher for a harder challenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Politely	politely	ADV	_	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 challenge	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 challenge	det
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 challenge	amod
8	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the teacher			for a harder challenge; politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient

Option 4

Tell everyone it's too easy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 easy	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	is	present	you not said here					easy 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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