Josh at confession: «I made fun of a boy's stammer.» Father: «And what will you do about the boy?» What is the right answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Josh, boy, you, right answer · What happens: make, stammer, do, be · To what, where: fun, Father
This is test 3 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: Josh at confession: «I made fun of a boy's stammer.»
vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product
2
stammerin a quote
a boy
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: Father: «And what will you do about the boy?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Father
father
NOUN
Number=Sing
root
root
2
:
:
PUNCT
_
1 Father
punct
3
«
«
PUNCT
_
8 do
punct
4
And
and
CCONJ
_
8 do
cc
5
what
what
PRON
PronType=Int
8 do
obj
6
will
will
AUX
VerbForm=Fin
8 do
aux
7
you
you
PRON
Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs
8 do
nsubj
8
do
do
VERB
VerbForm=Inf
1 Father
appos
9
about
about
ADP
_
11 boy
case
10
the
the
DET
Definite=Def PronType=Art
11 boy
det
11
boy
boy
NOUN
Number=Sing
8 do
obl
12
?
?
PUNCT
_
8 do
punct
13
»
»
PUNCT
_
8 do
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
doin a quote
future
you
Father
about the boy
vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location
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.