Test 10 · ★★ · Street gangs and loyalty

Lily's mate: «if u grass on ur brother he'll hate u». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, grass · What happens: grass, hate, be · To what, where: u

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 383 «Street gangs and loyalty» 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: «if u grass on ur brother he'll hate u».

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	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 hate	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 hate	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 grass	mark
7	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 grass	nsubj
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hate	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 brother	case
10	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grass	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hate	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hate	aux
14	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mate	parataxis
15	u	u	X	_	14 hate	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 hate	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grass a condition, not said to happen, in a quote		u					on ur's brother	tree rules
2	hate in a quote	future	grass	u					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer u=Stimulus

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He'll hate you for ever, so it's not worth it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hate	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hate	aux
3	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hate	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 hate	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worth	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 worth	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worth	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 worth	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 worth	advmod
12	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hate	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	future	He	you					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus for ever=Attribute
2	not is	present	it					worth property	tree rules

Option 2

Only grass if he's arrested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 grass	advmod
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 arrested	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 arrested	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 arrested	aux:pass
6	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grass	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrest	present · passive	grass not said here	he					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Getting him help is caring, even if he's cross at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 caring	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Getting	obj
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caring	cop
5	caring	caring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cross	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	11 cross	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 cross	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cross	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cross	cop
11	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 caring	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 first	case
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	gerund		help	him = he		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary help=Theme
2	is	present	Getting			caring property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	he			cross property	tree rules

Option 4

Keeping quiet is always safer for him in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 safer	csubj
2	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keeping	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safer	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 safer	advmod
5	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 safer	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		quiet					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiet=Theme
2	is	present	Keeping				in the end	for him = he; always, safe property	tree rules

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