Test 10 · ★ · Jake, always in bruises
«yours is bigger, mine's darker» — Jake and Maddie at lunch with their bruises. What did Lily see that they didn't?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yours, mine, Jake, Lily · What happens: be, bruise, see, not do · To what, where: lunch
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 372 «Jake, always in bruises» 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: «yours is bigger, mine's darker» — Jake and Maddie at lunch with their bruises.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 bigger | punct |
| 2 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bigger | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bigger | cop |
| 4 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 darker | punct |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 darker | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 darker | cop |
| 8 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 bigger | conj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 darker | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 lunch | punct |
| 11 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lunch | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Maddie | cc |
| 13 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jake | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 lunch | case |
| 15 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bigger | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bruises | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bruises | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lunch | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bigger | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | yours | lunch with Jake's bruises | big property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | mine | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bruise | Jake | nom bruise «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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 did Lily see that they didn't?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 did | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | advcl |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 did | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Lily | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not do | past | Jake | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
That their bruises were not real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 their | nsubj |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bruises | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 real | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 real | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 real | advmod |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | their bruises | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bruise | their = they | nom bruise «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
That bruises look nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 bruises | det |
| 2 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | that bruises | nice property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
That they should both go and get more bruises to win
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 go | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 bruises | amod |
| 9 | bruises | bruise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 win | mark |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | That | both property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | That not said here | more bruises | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | win | to-infinitive | more bruises not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
That being proud of being hurt is really sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 proud | nsubj |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 proud | cop |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sad | csubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 hurt | mark |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 proud | xcomp |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sad | cop |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 sad | advmod |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | That | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurt | gerund · passive | That not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | is | present | sad property | tree rules |
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