Test 5 · ★ · Girls who fight and double standards
«Sam's a wimp, won't even fight, Lily's sweet cos she won't either». What's wrong with that?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: be, not fight · To what, where: wimp
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 381 «Girls who fight and double standards» 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: «Sam's a wimp, won't even fight, Lily's sweet cos she won't either».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 wimp | punct |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wimp | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wimp | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 wimp | det |
| 5 | wimp | wimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fight | punct |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fight | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 fight | advmod |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 fight | advmod |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wimp | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sweet | punct |
| 12 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sweet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Lily | case |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wimp | parataxis |
| 15 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 19 either | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 either | nsubj |
| 17 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 either | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 either | advmod |
| 19 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 sweet | advmod |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 either | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wimp | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Sam | a wimp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not fight in a quote | future | Sam not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 that?
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 that | case |
| 5 | that | that | 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 that; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
It judges the same choice differently by who makes 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 | 2 judges | nsubj |
| 2 | judges | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 choice | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 choice | amod |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 judges | obj |
| 6 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 2 judges | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 makes | mark |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 judges | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | present | It | the same choice | differently property | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent choice=Value | |||
| 2 | make | present | choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Sam should just fight then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fight | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 fight | advmod |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fight | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | should | Sam | then | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Lily is a wimp too then, if Sam is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wimp | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wimp | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wimp | det |
| 4 | wimp | wimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 then | advmod |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 wimp | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sam | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 Sam | mark |
| 9 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wimp | appos |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wimp | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Lily | a wimp | then | tree rules |
Option 4
Nothing, that's just how it is and always will be
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 is | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 is | advmod |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 is | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 is | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 that | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 be | cc |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 be | advmod |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 be | aux |
| 12 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 that | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | be property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | future | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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