Test 3 · ★★ · Getting help is not telling tales
«Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break». Tales or getting help?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miss, Tales · What happens: keep, punch, get · To what, where: Ollie, break, help
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: «Miss, a Year 6 keeps punching Ollie at break».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Miss | punct |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Year | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Year | det |
| 5 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Miss | appos |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Year | flat |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | punching | punch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 punching | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 break | case |
| 11 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 punching | obl |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | Miss | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | punch in a quote | gerund | Miss not said here | Ollie | break | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ollie=Patient at break=Location |
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: Tales or getting help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 getting | cc |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 getting | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | Tales | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Getting help, but only if Ollie asks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 asks | csubj |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asks | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 asks | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 asks | advmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 asks | mark |
| 7 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asks | nsubj |
| 8 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | Ollie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Telling tales, it's not your business
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 business | csubj |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Telling | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 business | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 business | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 business | advmod |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 business | nmod:poss |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | it | your business | tree rules |
Option 3
Neither, punches don't count at break
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 count | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | punches | punch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 count | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 count | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 count | advmod |
| 6 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 break | case |
| 8 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 count | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | present · do-support | punches | break | neither property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Getting help, someone's being hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 someone | punct |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Getting | obl |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurt | aux:pass |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | help | 's someone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hurt | gerund · passive | Getting | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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