Test 6 · ★ · Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels

«Jake's thick, he can't even read» What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: not read, be

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thick	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Jake	case
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 read	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 read	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 read	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 read	advmod
10	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thick	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 read	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 read	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read in a quote	can	Jake						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						true property	tree rules

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

Jake can never learn anything, so he's thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 learn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 learn	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thick	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 thick	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thick	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 thick	cop
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 learn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not learn	can	Jake	anything					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	is	present	Jake					thick property	tree rules

Option 2

Thick people can't sit still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sit	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 sit	advmod
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sit	can	Thick people				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only lazy children read slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 children	advmod
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	lazy children					slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Reading slowly isn't the same as being stupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 same	csubj
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 stupid	mark
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stupid	cop
9	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	Reading	same property	tree rules
3	is	gerund	Reading not said here	stupid property	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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