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Test 9 · ★ · Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels

Mum at the gate: «my son shouldn't play with that soft lad». Is that a fair way for an adult to talk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: not play, be, talk · To what, where: gate, fair way

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Mum at the gate: «my son shouldn't play with that soft lad».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gate	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 gate	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 play	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 play	advmod
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gate	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 lad	case
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 lad	det
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lad	amod
15	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play in a quote	should	my son	the gate not said here				with that soft lad	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent gate=Theme with lad=Co-Agent

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: Is that a fair way for an adult to talk?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 way	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 adult	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 talk	mark
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair way				for a adult	tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, it labels a child unkindly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 labels	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 labels	nsubj
4	labels	label	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 labels	nmod:unmarked
7	unkindly	unkindly	ADV	_	4 labels	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, but only because Sam heard it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 heard	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 heard	mark
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Sam	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, if the boy really does knit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 knit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knit	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 knit	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knit	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 knit	advmod
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knit	aux
8	knit	knit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	present · do-support	the boy						vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, adults know best about children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 know	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	adults					about children; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about child=Stimulus

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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