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Test 7 · ★ · Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily

«chucked maddie's hat in the tree again haha». Why might the boys be doing it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: chuck, do · To what, where: hat, tree

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 387 «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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: «chucked maddie's hat in the tree again haha».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 chucked	punct
2	chucked	chuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	maddie	maddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 maddie	case
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chucked	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	2 chucked	advmod
10	haha	haha	INTJ	_	2 chucked	discourse
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 chucked	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chucked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck in a quote	past		maddie's hat		the tree	again		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hat=Theme in tree=Destination

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: Why might the boys be doing it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 doing	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 doing	aux
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doing	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	might · progressive	the boys	hat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They are trying to be her bodyguards on the way home

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 trying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 bodyguards	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bodyguards	cop
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bodyguards	nmod:poss
7	bodyguards	bodyguard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trying	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bodyguards	nmod
11	home	home	ADV	_	3 trying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	They					home property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	to-infinitive		her bodyguards		the way			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might be a clumsy crush, but it still isn't OK

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	6 crush	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 crush	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 crush	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crush	det
5	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crush	amod
6	crush	crush	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 OK	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 OK	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 OK	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	13 OK	advmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 OK	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 OK	advmod
13	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crush	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	It	a clumsy crush					tree rules
2	not is	present	crush				still	ok property	tree rules

Option 3

Hats in trees are lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lucky	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 trees	case
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hats	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lucky	cop
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

They want to help her climb

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	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	her = she					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	climb not said to happen	infinitive	her = she not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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