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Test 7 · ★★ · Boys who look at Maddie oddly

Kieran face-plants doing a wheelie right in front of her, everyone howls. What's kind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: face plants, everyone · What happens: do, howl, be · To what, where: wheelie, front, face plants

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 face-plants doing a wheelie right in front of her, everyone howls.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plants	nsubj
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plants	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 face	punct
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 plants	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wheelie	det
7	wheelie	wheelie	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	10 front	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 howls	punct
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 howls	nsubj
15	howls	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plants	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	face plants not said here	a wheelie		front of Kieran			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelie=Eventuality
2	howl	present	everyone	face plants not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

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 kind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

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

Laugh with him, then help him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laugh	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 help	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 help	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here					with him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help up	infinitive			him = he		then		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 2

Laugh loudest and point

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Laugh	parataxis
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 point	cc
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loudest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Walk past as if nothing happened

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 happened	mark
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 happened	mark
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 happened	nsubj
6	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	past	nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Tell him he's a loser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loser	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loser	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 loser	det
6	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	present	he	a loser					tree rules

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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