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Test 6 · ★★ · Boys who look at Maddie oddly

«she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, anyone · What happens: be, fancy · To what, where: tomboy, HER

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: «she's a tomboy, why would anyone fancy HER».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 tomboy	punct
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tomboy	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tomboy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tomboy	det
5	tomboy	tomboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fancy	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 fancy	advmod
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fancy	aux
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 fancy	nsubj
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tomboy	parataxis
11	HER	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fancy	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 fancy	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tomboy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	she	a tomboy					tree rules
2	fancy in a quote	would	anyone	HER = she					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Anyone can be liked, tomboys too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 liked	nsubj:pass
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	aux:pass
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tomboys	punct
6	tomboys	tomboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	obj
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 liked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	can · passive		Anyone					tree rules

Option 2

Only girly girls get crushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 girls	advmod
2	girly	girly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girls	amod
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	crushes	crush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	girly girls	crushes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crush=Stimulus

Option 3

Tomboys never like anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tomboys	tomboy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	1 Tomboys	advmod
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Tomboys	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Boys only stare at girls they hate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stare	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 stare	advmod
3	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 girls	case
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stare	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hate	nsubj
7	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 girls	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present	Boys					at girls	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at girl=Theme
2	hate	present	Boys = boy	girls not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus

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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