Test 3 · Lily, the calm «princess»
«she's well stuck up, never says a word to us». Which is more likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: stick up, not say, be · To what, where: word, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 386 «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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: «she's well stuck up, never says a word to us».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | aux |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stuck | advmod |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stuck | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 says | advmod |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 word | det |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up in a quote | present · passive | she | well property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | present | a word | us | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to we=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: Which is more likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She's shy and needs a chance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shy | cop |
| 3 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 needs | cc |
| 5 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shy | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chance | det |
| 7 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | She not said here | a chance | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chance=Theme |
Option 2
She's planning something sneaky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 planning | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 planning | aux |
| 3 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 planning | obj |
| 5 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present · progressive | She | something | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
Option 3
She thinks she's better than everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 better | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 better | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | She | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | she | than everyone; good property | tree rules |
Option 4
She can't speak any English yet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 English | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 speak | obj |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | can | She | any English | yet | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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