Test 4 · ★★ · Boys who look at Maddie oddly
Jake grins: «you're decent at footy for a girl». What's a smart reply?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake, you · What happens: grin, be · To what, where: footy, smart reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Jake grins: «you're decent at footy for a girl».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grins | nsubj |
| 2 | grins | grin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 grins | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 decent | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 decent | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 decent | cop |
| 7 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grins | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 footy | case |
| 9 | footy | footy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decent | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decent | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 decent | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | present | Jake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | footy | for a girl; decent 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 a smart reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 reply | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reply | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reply | det |
| 4 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reply | amod |
| 5 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reply | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a smart reply | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
«I'm decent for a person»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 decent | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 decent | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 decent | cop |
| 4 | decent | decent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decent | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 decent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | I | for a person; decent property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
«Thanks, girls are usually bad»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 bad | punct |
| 2 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girls | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thanks | punct |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bad | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bad | cop |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 bad | advmod |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 bad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Thanks girls | bad, usually property | tree rules |
Option 3
«I'll stop playing then, see ya»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 playing | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | conj |
| 9 | ya | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | future | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play in a quote | gerund | I not said here | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | ya | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 4
«Shut it or I'll deck ya, mate»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| 2 | Shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Shut | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 deck | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 deck | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 deck | aux |
| 7 | deck | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Shut | conj |
| 8 | ya | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 deck | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Shut | vocative |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut in a quote | imperative | you not said here | it | mate vocative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | deck in a quote | future | I | ya | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Destination |
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