Test 9 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters
Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase. Why not tease him?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, trouble, you · What happens: be, break, not tease · To what, where: trouble, vase, him
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Your brother is in trouble for breaking a vase.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 trouble | case |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 breaking | mark |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 trouble | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 vase | det |
| 9 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breaking | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your brother | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | trouble not said here | a vase | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vase=Patient |
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: Why not tease him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 tease | advmod |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 tease | advmod |
| 3 | tease | tease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tease | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tease | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tease | imperative | you not said here | him = he | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
The options
Option 1
He deserves to feel worse
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 | 2 deserves | nsubj |
| 2 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 feel | mark |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 deserves | xcomp |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | He not said here | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
You would want kindness when it is your turn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | aux |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 turn | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turn | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 turn | cop |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 turn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | would | You | kindness | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kindness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | kindness | your turn | tree rules |
Option 3
Teasing him somehow helps to fix the broken vase
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 helps | csubj |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Teasing | obj |
| 3 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 1 Teasing | advmod |
| 4 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fix | mark |
| 6 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 vase | det |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 vase | amod |
| 9 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fix | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | him = he | somehow property | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Teasing | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fix | to-infinitive | Teasing not said here | the broken vase | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vase=Patient | ||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Parents like it when you tease
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tease | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Parents | nmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 tease | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 tease | nsubj |
| 6 | tease | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | present | Parents like it | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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