Test 9 · ★★★ · Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»
«boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys». Is that fair?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boys, girls, that · What happens: not hit, hit, be · To what, where: girls, boys
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: «boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hit | advmod |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hit | cc |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hit | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hit | aux |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hit | parataxis |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hit | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hit in a quote | should | boys | girls | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme girl=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | can | girls | boys | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-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: Is that fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, boys are tougher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 tougher | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tougher | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tougher | cop |
| 5 | tougher | tough | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | boys | tough property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, that's what equality means
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 means | obj |
| 6 | equality | equality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | equality | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, nobody should hit anybody
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | aux |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | should | nobody | anybody | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anybody=Co-Theme |
Option 4
Only on Fridays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Fridays | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Fridays | case |
| 3 | Fridays | Friday | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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