Test 8 · Lily, the calm «princess»
New girl's first day, scared stiff. What did Lily's calm give her?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, give · To what, where: Lily
This is test 8 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: New girl's first day, scared stiff.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girl | amod |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stiff | punct |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stiff | amod |
| 8 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girl | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: What did Lily's calm give her?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Lily | case |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 calm | parataxis |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Lily | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lily=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | Lily | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It made her think Lily was stuck up and posh
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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stuck | aux:pass |
| 7 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stuck | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 posh | cc |
| 10 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stuck | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | It | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | her = she not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stick up | past · passive | Lily | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
Option 2
Nothing, because calm people are just boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boring | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 boring | mark |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 boring | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boring | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 boring | advmod |
| 8 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | calm people | boring property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It made her feel safe, and they became friends
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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 became | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | It | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | her = she not said here | safe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | become | past | they | friends | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
It made her more nervous
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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 nervous | advmod |
| 5 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | It | her = she | nervous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material she=Product |
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