Test 11 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales
«I'm not grassing, I'll get him back myself after school». What's likely to happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: not grass, get back, be, happen · To what, where: him
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 369 «Getting help is not telling tales» 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: «I'm not grassing, I'll get him back myself after school».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 grassing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grassing | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grassing | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 grassing | advmod |
| 5 | grassing | grass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grassing | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 9 get | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 school | case |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 grassing | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grassing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grass in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get back in a quote | future | I | him = he | after school | myself obl:unmarked | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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 likely to happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 likely | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A medal from the head teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 medal | det |
| 2 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 teacher | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teacher | compound |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 medal | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Everything sorted out forever, with no trouble at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 sorted | nsubj |
| 2 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 sorted | compound:prt |
| 4 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 sorted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trouble | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 trouble | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 trouble | det |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sorted | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 trouble | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort out | past | Everything | with no trouble at all; forever property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A fight where someone gets hurt and both get in trouble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fight | det |
| 2 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 get | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · passive | a fight | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | get | present | both | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
The other boy becomes his friend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | nsubj |
| 4 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 becomes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the other boy | boy's friend | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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