Test 8 · ★ · Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, pla…

Which shows kindness about growing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kindness · What happens: show, grow · To what, where: kindness

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 321 «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 growing	mark
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kindness	acl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		kindness					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient
2	grow	gerund	kindness not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

Telling a tall girl she looks too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 looks	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 old	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a tall girl				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient
2	look	present	girl					old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Calling the smallest child «baby»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calling	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 baby	punct
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	appos
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 baby	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund			the smallest child				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient

Option 3

Joking about who has grown the most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 grown	mark
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 grown	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Joking	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 most	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 grown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	gerund							tree rules
2	grow	present · perfect							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saying nothing unkind about anyone's height or body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Saying	obj
3	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 nothing	amod
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 height	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 height	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 anyone	case
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 body	cc
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 height	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		nothing				about anyone's height or body	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

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.

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