Test 1 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend
«they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them». What's the better move?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, 's, better move · What happens: shove, let, go, batter, be · To what, where: Freddie, bins, 's · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» 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: «they shoved Freddie in the bins, let's go batter them».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoved | punct |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shoved | nsubj |
| 3 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shoved | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bins | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bins | det |
| 7 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoved | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shoved | ccomp |
| 10 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | batter | batter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | xcomp |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 batter | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove in a quote | past | they | Freddie | the bins | tree rules | |||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | they not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | batter in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | bins = bin | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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 the better move?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the better move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Laugh, he deserved it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserved | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deserved | nsubj |
| 4 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Laugh | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deserved | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | deserve | past | he | it | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Help Freddie and take him to a teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 take | cc |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Help | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 teacher | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 teacher | det |
| 8 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | Freddie | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freddie=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you not said here | Freddie | a teacher | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to teacher=Destination |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Shove them in the bins too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shove | shove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shove | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bins | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bins | det |
| 5 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shove | obl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Shove | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove | imperative | you not said here | them = they | the bins | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bin=Destination |
Option 4
Go and batter them together as a gang
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 batter | cc |
| 3 | batter | batter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 batter | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 batter | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 gang | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gang | det |
| 8 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 batter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | batter | infinitive | you not said here | them = they | as a gang; together property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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