Test 3 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend
«why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them». Who's right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Maddie · What happens: stand, deck, be · To what, where: them
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: «why'd Maddie just stand there, she shoulda decked them».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stand | advmod |
| 3 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | aux |
| 4 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 stand | advmod |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stand | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decked | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decked | nsubj |
| 10 | shoulda | shoulda | ADV | _ | 11 decked | advmod |
| 11 | decked | deck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decked | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 decked | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | would | Maddie | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | deck in a quote | past | Maddie | them = they | shoulda property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
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: Who's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Maddie, standing by him stopped it without a fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maddie | punct |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stopped | csubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 standing | obl |
| 6 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stopped | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | by Maddie | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | |||||
| 2 | stop | past | Maddie | it | without a fight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
Option 2
The Station Road boys, it was a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boys | det |
| 2 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Road | compound |
| 3 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boys | compound |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 joke | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 joke | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 joke | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 joke | det |
| 9 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boys | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | it | a joke | tree rules |
Option 3
Nobody, she should have run off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 run | dep |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 run | aux |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 run | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | should · perfect | she | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The speaker, decking them is what works best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 speaker | det |
| 2 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 what | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 decking | punct |
| 4 | decking | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 speaker | acl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decking | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | cop |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 8 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 works | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deck | gerund | the speaker not said here | them = they | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the speaker | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | present | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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