Test 19 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground

my mate said a girl got a detention for nothing and the teacher hates her. pass it on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, girl, teacher · What happens: say, get, hate, pass on · To what, where: detention, girl, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 257 «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 detention	det
8	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 got	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hates	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 teacher	det
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hates	nsubj
14	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hates	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hates	punct
17	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 hates	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pass	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	17 pass	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	past	a girl	a detention	for nothing	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent detention=Theme for nothing=Source
3	hate	present	the teacher	girl		tree rules
4	pass on not said to happen	infinitive	the teacher not said here	teacher		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, so everyone complains to the head about the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 complains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 complains	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 complains	advmod
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 complains	nsubj
5	complains	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 complains	obl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	present	everyone		the head about the teacher				vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to head=Recipient

Option 2

Yes, the teacher is mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	cop
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the teacher					mean property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's gossip; consequences are about choices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 gossip	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gossip	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gossip	cop
5	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 choices	punct
7	consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 choices	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 choices	cop
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 choices	case
10	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gossip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	gossip and choices					tree rules
2	is	present	consequences					about choices	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if she said so herself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 said	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 herself	advmod
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	herself = she					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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