Test 11 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

my mate reckons kids with adhd are just naughty

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: reckon

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 298 «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 naughty	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 adhd	case
6	adhd	adhd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kids	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 naughty	aux
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 naughty	advmod
9	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reckons	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my mate						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it goes away if they're told off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 told	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	present	it					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell off speech: assert	present · passive		they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a brain difference that makes sitting still hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 difference	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 difference	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 difference	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 difference	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 difference	compound
7	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 difference	acl:relcl
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 makes	xcomp
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a brain difference		tree rules
2	make	present	a brain difference		hard property	tree rules
3	sit	gerund	a brain difference not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

No, it only happens to grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 happens	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happens	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happens	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 happens	advmod
5	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 ups	case
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	it					to grown ups	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they could sit still if they really tried a bit harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 sit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sit	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 tried	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tried	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 tried	advmod
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 harder	obl:unmarked
13	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 tried	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	could	they				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	they					hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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