Test 6 · ★ · Girls who fight and double standards
Lily's mate: «just slap her back, Lily, show her!». What's the wiser move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, wiser move · What happens: slap back, show, be · To what, where: mate, Lily
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Lily's mate: «just slap her back, Lily, show her!».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 show | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 slap | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 slap | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 slap | advmod |
| 7 | slap | slap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mate | acl:relcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slap | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 slap | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lily | punct |
| 11 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mate | punct |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slap back in a quote | infinitive | Lily's mate not said here | mate | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | infinitive | Lily's mate | Lily | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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 the wiser move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wiser move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Slap her back harder than she slapped you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slap | slap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Slap | obj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 harder | advmod |
| 4 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Slap | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 slapped | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slapped | nsubj |
| 7 | slapped | slap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 harder | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 slapped | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slap | imperative | you not said here | her = she | hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument | |||
| 2 | slap | past | she | you | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Walk off and tell a teacher what happened
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Walk | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | imperative | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Wait and do it after school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 do | cc |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | conj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | it | after school | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4
Pull her hair instead, it's less obvious
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pull | obj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Pull | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 obvious | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obvious | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 obvious | cop |
| 8 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 obvious | advmod |
| 9 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pull | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | imperative | you not said here | her hair | instead property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | hair | less, obvious property | tree rules |
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