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Test 7 · Jake and the head teacher

«the head was a fighter too?? no way». Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: head, Mr · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: fighter, Jake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 373 «Jake and the head teacher» 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: «the head was a fighter too?? no way».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 fighter	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 head	det
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fighter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fighter	det
6	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 fighter	advmod
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fighter	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 way	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fighter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	the head	a fighter					tree rules

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: Why might Mr Pryce tell Jake this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tell	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
4	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mr	flat
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 Jake	det
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	might	Mr		this Jake				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jake=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To give him fighting tips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 tips	amod
5	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		fighting tips	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tip=Theme
2	fight	gerund							vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To show him that change is possible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	iobj
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 change	det
5	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 possible	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 possible	cop
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	that change					possible property	tree rules

Option 3

To show off about all the fights he won when he was a boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 show	compound:prt
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 fights	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fights	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fights	det
7	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 won	nsubj
9	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fights	acl:relcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 boy	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 boy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 boy	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	to-infinitive						about all fights	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about fight=Topic
2	win	past	he	all fights not said here					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality
3	is a	past	he	a boy					tree rules

Option 4

To make him laugh at teachers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 laugh	advcl
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 teachers	case
6	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	him = he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	laugh	imperative	you not said here					at teachers	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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