Test 1 · Respect: how it is earned
Kieran: «everyone respects me cos I'm the hardest on the street». Sam's wise reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, Kieran, Sam · What happens: respect, be, reply · To what, where: me, street
This is test 1 of lesson 385 «Respect: how it is earned» 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: Kieran: «everyone respects me cos I'm the hardest on the street».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hardest | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 respects | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 respects | punct |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 respects | nsubj |
| 5 | respects | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hardest | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 respects | obj |
| 7 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 11 hardest | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hardest | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hardest | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hardest | det |
| 11 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 street | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 street | det |
| 14 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hardest | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 hardest | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hardest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect in a quote | present | everyone | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Kieran | the street | hard property | 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: Sam's wise reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reply | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reply | amod |
| 4 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 reply | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply | Sam | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
I respect you most of all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 respect | nsubj |
| 2 | respect | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 respect | obj |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 respect | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 most | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | present | I | you | tree rules |
Option 2
Then fight me to prove it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fight | advmod |
| 2 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fight | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 prove | mark |
| 5 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fight | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 prove | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | imperative | you not said here | me | then | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They're scared of you, mate — that's not respect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scared | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | cop |
| 3 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 scared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | vocative |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 respect | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 respect | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 respect | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 respect | advmod |
| 12 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | of you; mate vocative; scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | that | respect | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah you're well respected, mate, everyone thinks so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 respected | discourse |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 respected | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 respected | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 respected | advmod |
| 5 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mate | punct |
| 7 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 respected | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 respected | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 thinks | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | present · passive | you | mate vocative; well property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | everyone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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