Test 8 · ★ · Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels
«ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out». What's this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, this · What happens: look, get, be · To what, where: got tidy pencils
This is test 8 · ★ 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: «ooh look, Princess Lily's got her tidy pencils out».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | ooh | ooh | INTJ | _ | 3 look | discourse |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lily | compound |
| 6 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pencils | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lily | case |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pencils | amod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pencils | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tidy | tidy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pencils | amod |
| 11 | pencils | pencil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | Princess Lily's got tidy pencils | out property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pencil=Attribute | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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 this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A kind compliment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 compliment | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 compliment | amod |
| 3 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Sneering at her for something good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sneering | sneer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sneering | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Sneering | obl |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneer | gerund | at her = she; for something | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A joke Lily asked for
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 asked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | a joke | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
A fair warning to her about losing her pencils
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 warning | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warning | amod |
| 3 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warning | nmod |
| 6 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 losing | mark |
| 7 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 warning | acl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pencils | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pencils | pencil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 losing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | a fair warning to her not said here | her pencils | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Eventuality |
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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