Test 16 · ★ · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

did u hear some kids mocked a girl's Eid clothes and she "was too scared to come to school for a week". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, kids, girl · What happens: hear, mock, be, come · To what, where: lesson, Eid clothes, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 kids	det
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mocked	nsubj
6	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clothes	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 girl	case
10	Eid	Eid	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 clothes	compound
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 mocked	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 scared	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scared	nsubj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 she	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scared	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 scared	advmod
17	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mocked	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 scared	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 school	case
21	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 week	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 week	det
24	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mocked	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
27	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	lesson				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	mock	past	some kids	a girl's Eid clothes				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	girl				scared property	tree rules
4	come in a quote	to-infinitive	girl not said here		school	week		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Festival clothes should stay at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clothes	compound
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 stay	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should	Festival clothes			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 2

Mocking is fine if it's a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 joke	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 joke	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Mocking					fine property	tree rules
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	Mocking	a joke					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Never mock someone's festival clothes; it makes them feel unsafe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 mock	advmod
2	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 clothes	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 someone	case
5	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clothes	compound
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 mock	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 makes	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	nsubj
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mock	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 makes	obj
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 makes	xcomp
12	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mock	imperative	you not said here	someone's festival clothes		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	make	present	it	clothes		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	clothes not said here		unsafe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Only mock clothes you don't like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 mock	advmod
2	mock	mock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 mock	obj
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	advmod
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 clothes	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	imperative	you not said here	clothes					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
2	not like	present · do-support	you	clothes not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clothes=Theme

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