Test 6 · ★ · Teachers, visitors and the playground
Your teacher tells you off for something you did. Which reply is best?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, you, reply · What happens: tell off, do, be · To what, where: you
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Your teacher tells you off for something you did.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 tells | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 tells | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell off speech: assert | present | Your teacher | you | for something | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Which reply is best?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 best | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 best | cop |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 best | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which reply | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
"I'm sorry, I won't do it again"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorry | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | future | I | it | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 2
"You never tell anyone else off!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 anyone | advmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell off speech: assert in a quote | present | You | anyone | off property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
Option 3
"Whatever"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Silence and a slammed door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 door | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 4 | slammed | slam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Silence | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slam | participle | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
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