Test 5 · Maddie the tomboy
«how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??» What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be · To what, where: princess
This is test 5 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: «how r Maddie and Lily even mates, one's a tomboy one's a princess??»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 r | punct |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 r | advmod |
| 3 | r | r | X | _ | root | root |
| 4 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 r | goeswith |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Lily | cc |
| 6 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Maddie | conj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 mates | advmod |
| 8 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Maddie | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 princess | punct |
| 10 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 princess | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 princess | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | tomboy | tomboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | compound |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 princess | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 princess | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 r | flat |
| 18 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 17 princess | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 r | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | one | a princess | 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: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | 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 · ← Mova's choice
They only meet to fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 meet | advmod |
| 3 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fight | mark |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meet | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | They not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
They will fall out soon, because they are too different
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fall | aux |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 fall | advmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 fall | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 different | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 different | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 different | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 different | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 different | advmod |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fall | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | future | They | out, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | they | different property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Very different friends can be very close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 different | advmod |
| 2 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friends | amod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 close | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 close | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 close | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | different friends | close property | tree rules |
Option 4
They must be pretending to be friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pretending | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretending | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretending | aux |
| 4 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 friends | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 friends | cop |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pretending | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | must · progressive | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | They not said here | friends | tree rules |
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