Test 3 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments
Your little brother keeps breaking into your story to tell his own. What could you kindly tell him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, you · What happens: keep, break, tell · To what, where: story, own, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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 little brother keeps breaking into your story to tell his own.
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 | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keeps | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breaking | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 breaking | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 own | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Your little brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | break | gerund | Your little brother not said here | into your story result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into story=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Your little brother not said here | brother's own | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent own=Recipient |
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: What could you kindly tell him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 tell | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | could | you | brother | kindly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wait for a pause, then it's your turn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 pause | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pause | det |
| 4 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 turn | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turn | cop |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 turn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | for a pause | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | pause | your turn | then | tree rules |
Option 2
Only speak when nobody else is there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 speak | advmod |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 there | advmod |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 there | nsubj |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 nobody | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 speak | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | nobody | there property | tree rules |
Option 3
Speak over me whenever you want to, I don't mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Speak | obl |
| 4 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 want | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mind | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 want | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mind | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mind | advmod |
| 12 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Speak | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | over me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | want | present | you | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | not mind | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Never tell me your stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 tell | advmod |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stories | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | your stories | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic |
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