Test 1 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day
A girl in New York pretends to be ill because a classmate is bullying her. Why is telling the truth better?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, classmate · What happens: pretend, be, bully, tell · To what, where: girl, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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: A girl in New York pretends to be ill because a classmate is bullying her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pretends | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 York | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 York | flat |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 6 | pretends | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ill | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ill | cop |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pretends | xcomp |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 bullying | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 classmate | det |
| 12 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bullying | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bullying | aux |
| 14 | bullying | bully | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pretends | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bullying | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present | a girl in New York | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | a girl in New York not said here | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bully | present · progressive | a classmate | girl | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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 is telling the truth better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 telling | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 telling | aux |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 telling | obj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 telling | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 telling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | the truth | good property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her parents can only fix the real problem if they know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fix | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fix | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 fix | advmod |
| 5 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 problem | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 problem | amod |
| 8 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fix | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fix | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | can | Her parents | the real problem | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | present | parents = parent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Pretending to be ill is the quickest way to make the bully stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 way | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 ill | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stop | det |
| 12 | bully | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | compound |
| 13 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Pretending | the quickest way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the bully stop | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product |
Option 3
Being ill is a good excuse that works forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ill | cop |
| 2 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 excuse | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 excuse | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 excuse | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 excuse | amod |
| 6 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 works | nsubj |
| 8 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 excuse | acl:relcl |
| 9 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 8 works | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a good excuse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | present | a good excuse | forever property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The teacher will never find out, so she can keep pretending all term
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 keep | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 keep | aux |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 find | conj |
| 12 | pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 term | det |
| 14 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pretending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find out | future | the teacher | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | can | teacher | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pretend | gerund | teacher not said here | all term | tree rules |
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