Test 5 · ★★ · Confession, prayer and making amends at church
«Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more». What will help most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs · What happens: not look, help
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 365 «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» 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: «Mrs Doyle won't even look at me any more».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 2 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 3 | Doyle | Doyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mrs | flat |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 look | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | any | any | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 look | advmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look in a quote | future | Mrs | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=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.
Sentence 2: What will help most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | future | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Telling her it wasn't really that bad at all, honestly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bad | csubj |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bad | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bad | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 honestly | punct |
| 12 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | it | all | bad, honestly property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Steady good behaviour over time, and the work he promised
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 behaviour | amod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 behaviour | amod |
| 3 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 behaviour | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 work | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 behaviour | conj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 promised | nsubj |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | he | the work not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
Option 3
Avoiding her street for good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avoiding | avoid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 street | nmod:poss |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Avoiding | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 good | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Avoiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | gerund | her street | for good | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent street=Location |
Option 4
Sending her a firework as a gift
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sending | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 firework | det |
| 4 | firework | firework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sending | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 gift | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gift | det |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sending | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | gerund | a firework | her = she | as a gift | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination firework=Theme |
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