Test 11 · ★ · Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels
«names never hurt anyone, mate». Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: names · What happens: not hurt, be · To what, where: anyone
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 367 «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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: «names never hurt anyone, mate».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 anyone | vocative |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt in a quote | past | names | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Names only hurt if they rhyme
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 hurt | advmod |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 rhyme | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rhyme | nsubj |
| 6 | rhyme | rhyme | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | Names | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | rhyme a condition, not said to happen | present | Names = name | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Names can never hurt anyone, only sticks and stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sticks | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 sticks | advmod |
| 8 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stones | cc |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sticks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | can | Names | anyone | sticks and stones obl | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
Option 3
Names stop hurting after one day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stop | xcomp |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Names | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hurt | gerund | Names not said here | day | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Names can hurt a lot, especially when they spread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | aux |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 10 spread | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 spread | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spread | nsubj |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | can | Names | a lot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | Names = name | especially property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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