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Test 12 · ★★★ · Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»

«maddie's a tomboy, so she's not really a girl, so it's ok». What's wrong with this?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: maddie, she · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: tomboy, girl

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 379 «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 a tomboy, so she's not really a girl, so it's ok».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 tomboy	punct
2	maddie	maddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomboy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tomboy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tomboy	det
5	tomboy	tomboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 girl	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	13 girl	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 girl	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 girl	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 girl	advmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	13 girl	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomboy	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ok	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 ok	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ok	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ok	cop
18	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	parataxis
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 ok	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tomboy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	maddie	a tomboy					tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	present	she	a girl					tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	maddie					ok property	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 wrong with this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with this; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Nothing, it's a perfectly fair point when you think about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 point	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 point	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 point	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 point	det
6	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	7 fair	advmod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 point	amod
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 think	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 think	nsubj
11	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 point	parataxis
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	a fair point					tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	you					about point	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2

Tomboys are allowed to be hit like boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomboys	tomboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	aux:pass
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 hit	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hit	aux:pass
6	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 allowed	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 boys	case
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hit	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		Tomboys					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	hit not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	boys						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She is a girl, and nobody should be hit anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 girl	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 girl	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hit	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hit	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 hit	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hit	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hit	aux:pass
10	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 girl	acl
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a girl					tree rules
2	hit	should · passive		nobody				anyway property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 4

It's only wrong if she ends up crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 wrong	advmod
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ends	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ends	nsubj
7	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crying	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 ends	compound:prt
9	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 wrong	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	end up a condition, not said to happen	present	she						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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