Test 13 · ★ · Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities

new kid's got a weird accent, can we copy it for laughs

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid, we · What happens: get, copy · To what, where: weird accent, accent

This is test 13 · ★ 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	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 accent	det
6	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 accent	amod
7	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 copy	punct
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 copy	aux
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 copy	nsubj
11	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 got	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 copy	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 laughs	case
14	laughs	laugh	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · passive	new kid	a weird accent					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer accent=Stimulus
2	copy	can	we	accent				for laughs	vn scribble-25.2 «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, if he doesn't hear you doing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 hear	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hear	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	present · do-support	he	you					tree rules
2	do	gerund	you not said here	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

Only once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, it's funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 funny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 funny	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, mocking hurts; be friendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mocking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mocking	punct
3	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	hurts	hurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mocking	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 friendly	punct
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 friendly	cop
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mocking	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund		hurts					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurt=Theme
2	is	infinitive						friendly property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities/t13/