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Test 8 · ★★ · Self-defence or just stupid?

Teacher: «Lily, why didn't you just pinch him back?» Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: not pinch back · To what, where: Lily

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Teacher: «Lily, why didn't you just pinch him back?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Lily	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Lily	punct
4	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Teacher	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pinch	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 pinch	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pinch	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 pinch	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 pinch	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 pinch	advmod
11	pinch	pinch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Lily	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pinch	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 pinch	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Teacher	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pinch back in a quote	past · do-support	you	Lily					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Saying it loudly stopped him without starting a fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stopped	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Saying	obj
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 stopped	advmod
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 starting	mark
7	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stopped	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fight	det
9	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 starting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	stop	past	Saying	him = he				loudly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality
3	start	gerund	Saying not said here	a fight					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

Option 2

I forgot I could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 forgot	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	I						tree rules

Option 3

Pinching is only for babies, so I just ignored it all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pinching	pinching	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 babies	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 babies	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 babies	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 babies	case
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ignored	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 ignored	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 ignored	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 ignored	advmod
10	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 babies	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ignored	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ignored	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Pinching					for babies	tree rules
2	ignore	past	I	Pinching			day		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

I was too weak to pinch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 weak	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 weak	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 weak	advmod
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pinch	mark
6	pinch	pinch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 weak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					weak property	tree rules
2	pinch	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: 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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