Test 5 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters
At lunch, two friends are telling a story and you burst in with yours. How do they likely feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two friends, you, friends · What happens: tell, burst in, feel · To what, where: story, lunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: At lunch, two friends are telling a story and you burst in with yours.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 lunch | case |
| 2 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lunch | punct |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friends | nummod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 telling | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 telling | aux |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 burst | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 burst | nsubj |
| 12 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 telling | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 burst | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 yours | case |
| 15 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 burst | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | two friends | a story | lunch | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | burst in | present | you | with yours | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: How do they likely feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | amod |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | friends = friend | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Nothing | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Not respected, because they could not finish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 respected | advmod |
| 2 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 finish | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 finish | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 finish | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 finish | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 finish | advmod |
| 8 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 respected | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not respect | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | not finish | could | they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Happy to stop talking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 stop | mark |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Happy | xcomp |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Grateful for the new story, since theirs was going on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grateful | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 8 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Grateful | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 going | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · progressive | theirs = they | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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