Test 1 · Maddie the tomboy

«maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol». Right or wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maddie, girl · What happens: not be, not have · To what, where: proper girl, plaits

This is test 1 of lesson 378 «Maddie the tomboy» 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: «maddie's not a proper girl, she don't even have plaits lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct
2	maddie	maddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 girl	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girl	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 girl	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 girl	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 girl	amod
7	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 girl	parataxis
14	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
15	lol	lol	INTJ	_	13 have	discourse
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 girl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	maddie	a proper girl					tree rules
2	not have in a quote	present · do-support	girl	plaits					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=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: Right or wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 wrong	cc
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Right	conj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Wrong, because she's actually a boy who just has a girl's name

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boy	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boy	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 boy	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boy	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	cop
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 boy	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 has	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 has	advmod
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 name	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 girl	case
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a Wrong boy	actually property	tree rules
2	have	present	a Wrong boy	a girl's name		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
3	name		a girl			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wrong, there's no one right way to be a girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 's	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 's	expl
4	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 way	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	compound
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 's	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	12 girl	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 girl	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no one right way			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	no one right way not said here	a girl					tree rules

Option 3

Right, girls need plaits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 girls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	girls	plaits					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plait=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Right, girls can't play football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 play	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 play	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 play	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 play	advmod
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	can	girls	football					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme

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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