Test 5 · ★★ · Self-defence or just stupid?
«Freddie finally lamped Jake after like a whole term of names, Jake's well shocked». Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freddie, Jake · What happens: lamp, be, term · To what, where: Jake, names
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 377 «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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: «Freddie finally lamped Jake after like a whole term of names, Jake's well shocked».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 lamped | punct |
| 2 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lamped | nsubj |
| 3 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 lamped | advmod |
| 4 | lamped | lamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lamped | obj |
| 6 | after | after | ADV | _ | 4 lamped | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 term | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 term | det |
| 9 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 term | amod |
| 10 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lamped | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 names | case |
| 12 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 term | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shocked | punct |
| 14 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shocked | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shocked | cop |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 shocked | advmod |
| 17 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lamped | parataxis |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 shocked | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lamped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lamp in a quote | past | Freddie | Jake | like a whole term of names; after, finally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Jake | shocked, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | term in a quote | names | nom term «communication transitive»: of=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: Which is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Hitting was wrong, and so was the long name-calling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 calling | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 calling | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 calling | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 calling | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 calling | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 calling | amod |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 name | punct |
| 12 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrong | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the long name calling | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Jake got exactly what he asked for
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 asked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jake | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Jake | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Only Freddie was ever in the wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 Freddie | advmod |
| 2 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrong | cop |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 wrong | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wrong | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wrong | det |
| 7 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Freddie | ever | wrong property | tree rules |
Option 4
Freddie did nothing wrong at all, he was only defending himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Freddie | Freddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | amod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 wrong | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 defending | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 defending | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 defending | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 defending | advmod |
| 11 | defending | defend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 defending | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Freddie | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | defend | past · progressive | Freddie | Freddie | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
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