Test 5 · How to say stop
Your mates: «go on, pull her hair, dare ya». What's a strong answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: go on, pull, dare, be · To what, where: hair, ya, strong answer
This is test 5 of lesson 388 «How to say stop» 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: Your mates: «go on, pull her hair, dare ya».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mates | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 mates | nmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pull | punct |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 12 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | parataxis |
| 13 | ya | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 dare | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 dare | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mates | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on in a quote | infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | pull in a quote | infinitive | her hair | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dare in a quote | infinitive | ya | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: What's a strong answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a strong answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«Only if she doesn't see»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | present · do-support | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
«Later, when Miss isn't looking»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 2 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 looking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 looking | mark |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 looking | advmod |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look in a quote | present · progressive | Miss | late property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«Stop it, I'm not doing that»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Stop | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 doing | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 doing | advmod |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Stop | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 doing | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | imperative | you not said here | it | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | present · progressive | I | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
Option 4
«Fine, but you go first»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fine | punct |
| 2 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Fine | conj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present | you | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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