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Test 10 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked. Lily's got lunch break. What's a kind choice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Chloe, Lily · What happens: cry, yank, get, break, be · To what, where: room, plaits, kind choice

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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: Chloe's crying in the nurse's room after her plaits got yanked.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Chloe	case
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Chloe	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 nurse	case
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crying	obl
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 yanked	mark
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plaits	nmod:poss
11	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 yanked	nsubj:pass
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 yanked	aux:pass
13	yanked	yank	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crying	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Chloe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	Chloe not said here			the nurse's room			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location
2	yank	past · passive		Chloe's plaits					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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: Lily's got lunch break.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 break	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lily	case
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 break	amod
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	compound
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 break	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	break		Lily						nom break «event transitive»: poss=agent

Sentence 3: What's a kind choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 choice	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 choice	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 choice	det
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 choice	amod
5	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 choice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a kind choice					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Leave her, the nurse is there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Leave	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 nurse	det
5	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	her = she				the nurse obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	present	you not said here					there property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stay with her for a while

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 her	case
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stay	obl
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here				while	with her = she	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location

Option 3

Tell her plaits are silly anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 plaits	nmod:poss
3	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 silly	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	her plaits					silly property	tree rules

Option 4

Go and pull the boy's hair back for her

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 pull	cc
3	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hair	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 boy	case
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pull	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	3 pull	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pull	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	pull	infinitive	you not said here	the boy's hair				for her = she	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hair=Theme for she=Beneficiary

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