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Test 6 · ★★★ · Showing off

Kieran: «race ya to the lamppost, loser buys crisps». He trips, and the other boy helps him up. What did the race turn into?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran loser, loser, other boy, race · What happens: buy, trip, help up, turn · To what, where: crisps, loser

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 390 «Showing off» 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: «race ya to the lamppost, loser buys crisps».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 loser	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 race	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 race	punct
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kieran	appos
5	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 race	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 lamppost	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamppost	det
8	lamppost	lamppost	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 race	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kieran	punct
10	loser	loser	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 buys	nsubj
11	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 buys	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 buys	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 buys	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy in a quote	present	Kieran loser	crisps					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=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: He trips, and the other boy helps him up.

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 trips	nsubj
2	trips	trip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 helps	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helps	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 helps	nsubj
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 trips	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helps	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 helps	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	present	loser						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	help up	present	the other boy		loser				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Sentence 3: What did the race turn into?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 turn	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 race	det
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	5 turn	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past · do-support	the race						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A reason for a bigger race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reason	det
2	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 race	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 race	amod
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reason	nmod

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

Option 2

A fight that the streets will remember

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fight	det
2	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 remember	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 streets	det
5	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remember	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 remember	aux
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fight	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	future	the streets	a fight not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fight=Theme

Option 3

A win for Kieran after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 win	det
2	win	win	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 Kieran	case
4	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 win	nmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 win	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A rivalry that ended in kindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rivalry	det
2	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ended	nsubj
4	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rivalry	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 kindness	case
6	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	a rivalry			kindness			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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