Test 15 · ★ · Compliments and respecting differences

Why did the new boy start skipping lunch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy start · What happens: do, skip · To what, where: new boy start, lunch

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 226 «Compliments and respecting differences» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 start	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	compound
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	skipping	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 start	acl
8	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skipping	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the new boy start					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Eventuality
2	skip	gerund	the new boy start not said here	lunch					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Agent

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

He wanted to lose weight

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 lose	mark
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	weight					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality

Option 2

He just wasn't hungry at lunchtime any more

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	5 hungry	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 hungry	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 lunchtime	case
7	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	obl
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 hungry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	He			lunchtime		hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Lunch was too early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 early	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 early	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 early	advmod
4	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Lunch					early property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was being mocked for his food

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	4 mocked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mocked	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mocked	aux:pass
4	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past · passive		He				for his food	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for food=Attribute

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