Test 1 · ★★ · Boys who look at Maddie oddly
«kieran keeps staring at u and goin red lol». What's the likeliest reason?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kieran, likeliest reason · What happens: keep, stare, goin, be
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 389 «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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: «kieran keeps staring at u and goin red lol».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| 2 | kieran | kieran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 keeps | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 u | case |
| 6 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 staring | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 goin | cc |
| 8 | goin | goin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 staring | conj |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 goin | xcomp |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 staring | discourse |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | kieran | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stare in a quote | gerund | kieran not said here | at u | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | goin in a quote | infinitive | kieran not said here | red property | 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: What's the likeliest reason?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 4 | likeliest | likely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 reason | amod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the likeliest reason | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He's got a fever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | aux |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fever | det |
| 5 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · passive | He | a fever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fever=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He probably likes her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 likes | nsubj |
| 2 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 3 likes | advmod |
| 3 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 likes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | He | her = she | probably property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He thinks she stole his pen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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 | 4 stole | nsubj |
| 4 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pen | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stole | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | He | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | steal | past | she | his pen | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pen=Theme |
Option 4
He wants to fight her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fight | mark |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fight | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | He | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | her = she | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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