Test 9 · ★ · Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares
Everyone is laughing at a boy left alone at lunch. Why does sitting with him matter?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Everyone · What happens: laugh, leave, sit · To what, where: boy, lunch, matter
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 284 «Facts, opinions, clickbait and saying no to dares» 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: Everyone is laughing at a boy left alone at lunch.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 laughing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | aux |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughing | obl |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boy | acl |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 left | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 lunch | case |
| 10 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | Everyone | at a boy | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | a boy not said here | lunch | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at lunch=Location |
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 does sitting with him matter?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | aux |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sitting | obl |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · do-support | matter | with boy | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location matter=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It doesn't matter much at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 matter | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 matter | advmod |
| 4 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 matter | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 matter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | It | all | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
The teacher will notice and give you a sticker for it
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 | 4 notice | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 notice | aux |
| 4 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 notice | conj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sticker | det |
| 9 | sticker | sticker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | future | the teacher | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the teacher not said here | a sticker | you | for teacher | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sticker=Theme for it=Asset |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It takes courage, and it matters a lot to him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 takes | nsubj |
| 2 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 takes | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 matters | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 matters | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 matters | nsubj |
| 7 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 takes | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lot | det |
| 9 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matters | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 matters | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | It | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | matter | present | it | a lot | him = he | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer |
Option 4
It makes you more popular
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 popular | advmod |
| 5 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | you | popular property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product |
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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