Test 3 · ★ · Speaking up, saying no and growing up
At a sleepover someone opens a can of beer and offers it round. What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, best answer · What happens: open, offer, be · To what, where: beer, sleepover
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 215 «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 a sleepover someone opens a can of beer and offers it round.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sleepover | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sleepover | det |
| 3 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | obl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 opens | nsubj |
| 5 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beer | det |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 beer | aux |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beer | case |
| 9 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 offers | cc |
| 11 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opens | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 offers | obj |
| 13 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 offers | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | someone | a beer | a sleepover | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme at sleepover=Location | |||
| 2 | offer | present | someone not said here | beer | round property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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: What is the best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Pretend to drink it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 drink | mark |
| 3 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pretend | xcomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drink | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
Take a small sip so that you seem a bit more grown up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sip | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sip | amod |
| 4 | sip | sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 8 seem | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 so | fixed |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seem | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 grown | advmod |
| 12 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 grown | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a small sip | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | you | a bit | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bit=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | you not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Drink it if nobody's parents will know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Drink | obj |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 nobody | case |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 know | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Drink | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | imperative | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | future | nobody's parents | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"No thanks", and go and do something else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 thanks | det |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanks | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanks | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 something | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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