Test 3 · ★ · Taking too much

mate says «her trainers are rank» but he's been staring at them all week. what's going on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, trainers, he · What happens: say, be, stare, go on · To what, where: rank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 352 «Taking too much» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 rank	punct
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 trainers	nmod:poss
5	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rank	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rank	cop
7	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 rank	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 staring	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 staring	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 staring	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 staring	aux
13	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 says	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 staring	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 staring	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 staring	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 going	nsubj
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 staring	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 going	compound:prt
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	mate's trainers	rank			tree rules
3	stare	present · progressive	he		week	at trainers = trainer	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
4	go on	present · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

He's probably envious and saying it to feel better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 envious	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 envious	cop
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 envious	advmod
4	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saying	cc
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 envious	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saying	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 feel	mark
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	advcl
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		envious, probably property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	He not said here	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	feel	to-infinitive	He not said here		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

He's being kind to her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		her = she			kind property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He wants her to wear them more often, so he says it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wear	mark
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wear	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	5 wear	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 says	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wants	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	her = she		tree rules
2	wear not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she not said here	them = they	often property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source
3	say speech: assert	present	he	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

He really hates trainers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hates	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 hates	advmod
3	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	He	trainers					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trainer=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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