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Test 8 · ★★★ · Showing off

A new boy keeps boasting about his huge house and his fast bike. Using the lesson, what will most likely help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new boy · What happens: keep, boast, use · To what, where: lesson

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: A new boy keeps boasting about his huge house and his fast bike.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boasting	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bike	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bike	nmod:poss
12	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bike	amod
13	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a new boy						tree rules
2	boast speech: other	gerund	a new boy not said here					about boy's huge house and boy's fast bike	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about house=Topic

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: Using the lesson, what will most likely help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lesson	det
3	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Using	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Using	obl
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 what	aux
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 likely	advmod
8	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 help	amod
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Using	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		the lesson					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Leave him out until he stops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 stops	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stops	nsubj
6	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	imperative	you not said here	him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stop	present	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Boast about your house too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 house	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 house	nmod:poss
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Boast	nmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	1 Boast	advmod

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

Option 3

Tell him he's a liar

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 liar	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liar	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liar	det
6	liar	liar	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 liar					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Be friendly to him as he is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 friendly	cop
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 friendly	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 is	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friendly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		him = he			friendly property	tree rules
2	be	present	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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