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Test 9 · ★ · Maddie and Chloe's plaits

«my cousin keeps pulling girls' hair at parties, it's just a game». What would Maddie say?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, Maddie · What happens: keep, pull, be, say · To what, where: hair, parties, game · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 380 «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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: «my cousin keeps pulling girls' hair at parties, it's just a game».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hair	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 girls	case
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulling	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 parties	case
10	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pulling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 game	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 game	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 game	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 game	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 game	det
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 game	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	my cousin						tree rules
2	pull in a quote	gerund	my cousin not said here	girls's hair		parties			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hair=Theme at party=Asset
3	is a in a quote	present	cousin	a game					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 would Maddie say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	Maddie						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Pull harder so they learn to keep their hair short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Pull	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 learn	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learn	nsubj
5	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pull	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learn	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	present	they						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	keep	to-infinitive	they not said here	their hair				short property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 2

It's fine to do it if they're little

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	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	csubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 little	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 little	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 little	cop
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive		it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	they					little property	tree rules

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

It's not a game, it hurts and they remember it

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	5 game	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 game	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 game	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hurts	nsubj
8	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 game	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remember	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remember	nsubj
11	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurts	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a game					tree rules
2	hurt	present	game						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	remember	present	they	game					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Only pull plaits, never ponytails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 pull	advmod
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plaits	plait	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ponytails	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ponytails	advmod
6	ponytails	ponytail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	plaits				ponytails obl	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=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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