Test 9 · ★★★ · Showing off
Monkey bars, Jake vs Maddie, crowd yelling «drop him, Maddie!». When is a contest like this OK?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Monkey bars, crowd, contest · What happens: v, yell, drop, be · To what, where: Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Monkey bars, Jake vs Maddie, crowd yelling «drop him, Maddie!».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bars | compound |
| 2 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 vs | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vs | punct |
| 4 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vs | nsubj |
| 5 | vs | v | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vs | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crowd | punct |
| 8 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Maddie | appos |
| 9 | yelling | yell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 crowd | acl |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 drop | punct |
| 11 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 yelling | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 drop | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Maddie | punct |
| 14 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Maddie | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Maddie | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 Maddie | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | v | present | Monkey bars | Maddie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | gerund | crowd not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drop in a quote | infinitive | crowd not said here | Maddie | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: When is a contest like this OK?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 OK | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 OK | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 contest | det |
| 4 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 OK | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 OK | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 OK | nsubj |
| 7 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 OK | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a contest | ok property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only when there's a prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 's | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 's | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prize | det |
| 6 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a prize | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
When nobody gets hurt and nobody needs to win
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux:pass |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 needs | cc |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 needs | nsubj |
| 7 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 win | mark |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 needs | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · passive | nobody | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | need | present | nobody | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
When the crowd is loud enough to hear from the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 loud | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loud | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loud | cop |
| 5 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 loud | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hear | mark |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loud | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the crowd | enough, loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the crowd not said here | the road | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from road=Source |
Option 4
When one of them falls over on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 falls | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 falls | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 purpose | case |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 falls | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall over | present | one of them | purpose | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location |
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