Test 7 · ★ · Leaving someone out
«guess what, Sam still has a teddy!!» – the whole class laughs. What does that do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Sam, whole class, that · What happens: guess, have, laugh, do · To what, where: teddy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 347 «Leaving someone out» 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: «guess what, Sam still has a teddy!!» – the whole class laughs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 guess | punct |
| 2 | guess | guess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 guess | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 has | advmod |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 guess | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 teddy | det |
| 9 | teddy | teddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 9 teddy | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
| 12 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughs | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 class | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 class | amod |
| 15 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laughs | nsubj |
| 16 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 guess | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 guess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Sam | a teddy | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Patient | |||
| 3 | laugh | present | the whole class | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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 does that do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, everyone knows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 knows | obj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | everyone | Nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 2
Helps Sam grow up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Helps | obj |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Helps | xcomp |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grow | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Sam | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sam=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | infinitive | Sam not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Breaks Sam's trust and gets him teased
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trust | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sam | case |
| 4 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breaks | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gets | cc |
| 6 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Breaks | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gets | obj |
| 8 | teased | tease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Sam's trust | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get | present | Sam | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tease | participle | Sam not said here | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | trust | Sam | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Makes Sam popular
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Makes | obj |
| 3 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Sam | popular property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sam=Product |
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