Test 12 · ★★★ · Breaking things and hiding the pieces
Why did the street look at Jamie differently after the firecracker?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: street · What happens: look
This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 342 «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 look | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 street | det |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Jamie | case |
| 7 | Jamie | Jamie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 firecracker | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 firecracker | det |
| 11 | firecracker | firecracker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | the street | after the firecracker | at Jamie; differently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at jamie=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 · ✓ the right answer
Trust in him was broken and has to be earned back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Trust | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 earned | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 earned | aux:pass |
| 10 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 broken | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 earned | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | Trust in him | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | earn back | to-infinitive · passive | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» |
Option 2
They thought he was brave and grown-up for doing it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brave | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brave | cop |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grown | cc |
| 7 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brave | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grown | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 doing | mark |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 doing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | They | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | he | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | he not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | gerund | They not said here | it | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
They liked loud bangs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bangs | amod |
| 4 | bangs | bang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 liked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | They | loud bangs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bang=Theme |
Option 4
They didn't know him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | They | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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