Test 9 · ★ · Girls who fight and double standards
Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.» What's a fairer saying?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nice girls, nice boys · What happens: not fight, hit back, be · To what, where: fairer saying
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| 4 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girls | amod |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fight | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fight | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fight | advmod |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Gran | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hit | punct |
| 10 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boys | amod |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hit | nsubj |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fight | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 hit | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight in a quote | present · do-support | Nice girls | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hit back in a quote | past | nice boys | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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: What's a fairer saying?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 saying | det |
| 4 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 saying | amod |
| 5 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fairer saying | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nobody should ever stand up for themselves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | aux |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 stand | advmod |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stand | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 themselves | case |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 stand | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | should | Nobody | ever | for themselves = they | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Only nice boys fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 nice | advmod |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boys | amod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | nice boys | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Girls must always hit back too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hit | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 hit | advmod |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 hit | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 hit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit back | must | Girls | always property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nice people don't hurt anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | present · do-support | Nice people | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
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