Test 13 · ★ · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

whys he not eating at lunch, its weird

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whys · What happens: not eat · To what, where: lunch

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 309 «Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates» 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	whys	why	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eating	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eating	advmod
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weird	punct
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 weird	nmod:poss
9	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eating	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	gerund	whys			lunch			vn eat-39.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Make him eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He's just being silly and showing off, ignore him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 silly	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 showing	cc
7	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 silly	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 showing	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ignore	punct
10	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 silly	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present · progressive	He		silly property	tree rules
2	show off	gerund	He not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ignore	infinitive	He not said here	him = he		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He may be fasting for Ramadan; be kind, not mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fasting	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fasting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fasting	aux
4	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 kind	csubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Ramadan	case
6	Ramadan	Ramadan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fasting	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 fasting	punct
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	cop
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mean	advmod
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 kind	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fast	may · progressive	He	for Ramadan	tree rules
2	is	imperative	you not said here	kind property	tree rules
3	not mean	infinitive			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Tease him till he eats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tease	obj
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 eats	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eats	nsubj
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tease	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	eat	present	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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