Test 18 · ★ · Questions, group work and the adults at school

apparently that boy asked a silly question in maths and the whole class laughed so hard he never spoke again. what's probably exaggerated?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, whole class, class · What happens: ask, laugh, not speak, exaggerate · To what, where: silly question, maths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 256 «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 exaggerated	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 question	amod
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 maths	case
9	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 question	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laughed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 class	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 class	amod
13	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 hard	advmod
16	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 laughed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 spoke	advmod
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laughed	parataxis
20	again	again	ADV	_	19 spoke	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 exaggerated	aux
24	probably	probably	ADV	_	25 exaggerated	advmod
25	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 exaggerated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	that boy	a silly question	maths		apparently property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	laugh	past	the whole class				hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not speak speech: other	past	class			again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	exaggerate	present · passive					probably property	tree rules

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

That he asked a question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 asked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	That	a question					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Never spoke again; and questions are how you learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 spoke	advmod
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 spoke	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 learn	cc
6	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learn	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	cop
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 learn	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 learn	nsubj
10	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	past					again		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	questions					learn property	tree rules

Option 3

That maths was the lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 maths	det
2	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lesson	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lesson	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that maths	the lesson					tree rules

Option 4

That some of the other children laughed at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 some	nsubj
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 laughed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 children	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 some	nmod
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	some					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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