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Test 2 · ★ · Respecting the festivals and traditions of classmates

A girl laughs at a menorah in a classmate's photo. What could you tell her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, you · What happens: laugh, tell · To what, where: menorah, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl laughs at a menorah in a classmate's photo.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 menorah	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 menorah	det
6	menorah	menorah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 photo	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 classmate	det
9	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 photo	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 classmate	case
11	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 menorah	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	a girl			a menorah in a classmate's photo			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.

Sentence 2: What could you tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	you		girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It is part of Hanukkah, and laughing at someone's tradition is unkind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 part	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 part	cop
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Hanukkah	case
5	Hanukkah	Hanukkah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unkind	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 unkind	cc
8	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 unkind	csubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 tradition	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 tradition	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 someone	case
12	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughing	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unkind	cop
14	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 part	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	part				of Hanukkah	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund				someone's tradition			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	laughing					unkind property	tree rules

Option 2

It is just a strange lamp, so laughing is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lamp	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lamp	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 lamp	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lamp	det
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lamp	amod
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fine	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 fine	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lamp	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a strange lamp					tree rules
2	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present						fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She should only laugh when the classmate is not looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laugh	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 laugh	advmod
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 looking	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 classmate	det
7	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 looking	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 looking	advmod
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 laugh	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	should	She						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not look	present · progressive	the classmate						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Menorahs are only used at Christmas, so the photo must be wrong and she can laugh

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Menorahs	menorah	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Christmas	case
6	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wrong	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 wrong	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 photo	det
10	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrong	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wrong	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wrong	cop
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laugh	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laugh	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 laugh	aux
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wrong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		Menorahs		Christmas			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	must	the photo					wrong property	tree rules
3	laugh	can	Christmas						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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