Test 1 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…
Two children are telling a story at once, and one keeps cutting in. How does the first child probably feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two children, one, first child · What happens: tell, keep, cut in, feel · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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: Two children are telling a story at once, and one keeps cutting in.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 children | nummod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 telling | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | aux |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 telling | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 telling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeps | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keeps | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 keeps | nsubj |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | advcl |
| 13 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 keeps | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 cutting | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | Two children | a story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut in | gerund | one not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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: How does the first child probably feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 feel | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 7 feel | advmod |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | the first child | probably property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Happy that the talk is faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 faster | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 talk | det |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 faster | cop |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Happy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the talk | fast property | tree rules |
Option 2
Nothing, interrupting is normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 interrupting | punct |
| 3 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 normal | cop |
| 5 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | gerund | Nothing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Nothing | normal property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Not listened to and not respected
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 listened | advmod |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 listened | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 respected | cc |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 respected | advmod |
| 6 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 listened | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | participle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not respect | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Pleased to have help with the story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pleased | xcomp |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | help | with the story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient |
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