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Test 2 · Teasing and laughing at others

«everyone copied his stammer and nobody got told off so it's fine». What's right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, nobody, his · What happens: copy, tell off, be, stammer · To what, where: stammer, nobody

This is test 2 of lesson 346 «Teasing and laughing at others» 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: «everyone copied his stammer and nobody got told off so it's fine».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 copied	punct
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 copied	nsubj
3	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stammer	nmod:poss
5	stammer	stammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 copied	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 told	compound:prt
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 fine	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 told	xcomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 copied	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 copied	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy in a quote	past	everyone	his stammer					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stammer=Theme
2	tell off speech: assert in a quote	past · passive		nobody					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	nobody not said here					fine property	tree rules
4	stammer in a quote		his = he						nom stammer «state transitive»: poss=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's right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's fine if he laughs a bit

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 fine	expl
2	's	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	_	6 laughs	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 laughs	nsubj
6	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laughs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present	he	a bit					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme

Option 2

It only matters in class

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 matters	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 class	case
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	It			class			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It's fine if nobody's told off by a teacher

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 fine	expl
2	's	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	_	7 told	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 told	nsubj:pass
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fine	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 told	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	tell off speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present · passive	a teacher	nobody					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It still hurt him, and it's still wrong

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 hurt	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 hurt	advmod
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wrong	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wrong	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wrong	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wrong	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 wrong	advmod
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hurt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past	It	him = he			still		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
2	is	present	it				still	wrong property	tree rules

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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