Test 4 · Respect: how it is earned
Sam, after assembly: «my voice was all shaky, so embarrassing». His mate says?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: voice, mate · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: Sam, after assembly: «my voice was all shaky, so embarrassing».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 assembly | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembly | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 assembly | case |
| 4 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaky | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaky | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 voice | nmod:poss |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shaky | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shaky | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 shaky | advmod |
| 11 | shaky | shaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 assembly | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 embarrassing | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 embarrassing | advmod |
| 14 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shaky | conj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaky | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembly | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | my voice | all, shaky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | my voice not said here | 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: His mate says?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Sam's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Next time shout it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shout | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shout | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | it | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It was brave — you did it anyway
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 | 3 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 did | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 did | obj |
| 8 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | you | it | anyway property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
Yeah, everyone laughed at you though
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 laughed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | obl |
| 7 | though | though | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | everyone | at you; though property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
You should've just not bothered
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 've | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 've | aux |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 bothered | advmod |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bothered | advmod |
| 6 | bothered | bother | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 've | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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