Test 4 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…
Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop». Two weeks on, still tugging. Now what?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: ignore, stop, tug · To what, where: them
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 391 ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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: Lily's gran: «ignore them, love, they'll stop».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gran | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignore | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignore | punct |
| 6 | ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gran | parataxis |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ignore | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ignore | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ignore | conj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 ignore | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gran | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore in a quote | infinitive | them = they | love vocative | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | future | they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: Two weeks on, still tugging.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 weeks | nummod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 on | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tugging | punct |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 tugging | advmod |
| 6 | tugging | tug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 on | advcl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 on | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tug | gerund | still | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Sentence 3: Now what?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Cut her ponytail off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ponytail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ponytail | ponytail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Cut | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | imperative | you not said here | her ponytail | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ponytail=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tell a teacher, because ignoring hasn't worked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 worked | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 worked | mark |
| 6 | ignoring | ignore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 worked | csubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 worked | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 worked | advmod |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Tell | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ignore | gerund | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not work | present · perfect | ignoring | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Keep ignoring them for a whole year if she has to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ignoring | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ignoring | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ignoring | obl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 has | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 has | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ignore | gerund | you not said here | them = they | year | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | she | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Tug their hair back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tug | tug | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tug | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Tug | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tug back | imperative | you not said here | their hair | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
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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