Test 16 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters
so bored i'm gonna climb the garage roof
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: climb · To what, where: garage roof
This is test 16 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 bored | advmod |
| 2 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 climb | advcl |
| 3 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 climb | aux |
| 5 | gonna | gonna | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 climb | dep |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 8 | garage | garage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 roof | compound |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | i | the garage roof | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location roof=Theme |
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
Yes, boredom's the worst, anything's better than that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 worst | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | boredom | boredom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 worst | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worst | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 worst | det |
| 6 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 better | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 better | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 anything | case |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 that | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 better | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | boredom | bad property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only the low side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 side | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, if nobody's watching
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 watching | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 watching | mark |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 watching | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 watching | aux |
| 6 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · progressive | nobody | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, find something safe, roofs are a bad fall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 find | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
| 7 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fall | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fall | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fall | det |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fall | amod |
| 11 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | something | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | roofs | a bad fall | 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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