Test 3 · ★ · Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels
«look Sam's crying again!!» — it's freezing and windy. What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, it · What happens: look, cry, freeze, be
This is test 3 · ★ 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: «look Sam's crying again!!» — it's freezing and windy.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sam | case |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 look | advcl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 7 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 freezing | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 freezing | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 freezing | aux |
| 12 | freezing | freeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 look | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 windy | cc |
| 14 | windy | windy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 freezing | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | freeze | present · progressive | it | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 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 · ← Mova's choice
He must be crying about Jake again, poor thing
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 crying | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 crying | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 crying | aux |
| 4 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 Jake | case |
| 6 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crying | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 crying | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thing | punct |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thing | amod |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crying | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | must · progressive | He | again | about Jake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about jake=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cold wind makes anyone's eyes water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wind | amod |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 anyone | case |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cold wind | eyes water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product |
Option 3
Only weak people's eyes water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 weak | advmod |
| 2 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 people | case |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 water | compound |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
It's hay fever in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fever | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fever | cop |
| 3 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | compound |
| 4 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 winter | case |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fever | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | hay fever | winter | tree rules |
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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