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Test 8 · Walking away

Jake's fists itch and his face goes hot after an insult. What helps most?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fists, face · What happens: itch, go, help

This is test 8 of lesson 371 «Walking away» 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: Jake's fists itch and his face goes hot after an insult.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fists	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 itch	nsubj
4	itch	itch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 goes	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 itch	conj
9	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 goes	xcomp
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 insult	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 insult	det
12	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 itch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	itch	present	Jake's fists						vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	go	present	Jake's face				after a insult	hot property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 helps most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Tense your fists even harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tense	tense	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 fists	nmod:poss
3	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tense	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 harder	advmod
5	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Tense	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tense	imperative	you not said here	your fists				hard property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fist=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Count to ten and turn round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 ten	case
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Count	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 turn	cc
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	conj
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here					to ten	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ten=Experiencer
2	turn round	present	you not said here					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Stare at the boy until he looks away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 boy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stare	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 looks	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stare	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	imperative	you not said here					at the boy	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme
2	look away	present	boy					away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Shout the insult back louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 insult	det
3	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shout	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Shout	advmod
5	louder	loud	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Shout	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout back speech: express	imperative	you not said here	the insult				loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insult=Topic

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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