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Test 7 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

«girls don't hit, but boys gotta, innit». Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: not hit, innit · To what, where: boys gotta

This is test 7 · ★ 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: «girls don't hit, but boys gotta, innit».

punctnsubjauxadvmodpunctcccompoundobjpunctconjpunctpunctroot«PUNCTgirlsNOUNdoAUXn'tPARThitVERB,PUNCTbutCCONJboysNOUNgottaNOUN,PUNCTinnitVERB»PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1««PUNCT_5 hitpunct
2girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur5 hitnsubj
3dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 hitaux
4n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 hitadvmod
5hithitVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6,,PUNCT_9 gottapunct
7butbutCCONJ_9 gottacc
8boysboyNOUNNumber=Plur9 gottacompound
9gottagottaNOUNNumber=Sing5 hitobj
10,,PUNCT_11 innitpunct
11innitinnitVERBVerbForm=Inf5 hitconj
12»»PUNCT_5 hitpunct
13..PUNCT_5 hitpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not hit in a quotepresent · do-supportgirlsboys gottavn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gotta=Co-Theme
2innit in a quoteinfinitivegirls not said heretree rules

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: Right?

punctrootRightINTJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RightrightINTJ_rootroot
2??PUNCT_1 Rightpunct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, boys must fight or they're not proper boys

discoursepunctnsubjauxccnsubjcopadvmodamodconjrootYesINTJ,PUNCTboysNOUNmustAUXfightVERBorCCONJtheyPRON'reAUXnotPARTproperADJboysNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos5 fightdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yespunct
3boysboyNOUNNumber=Plur5 fightnsubj
4mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin5 fightaux
5fightfightVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6ororCCONJ_11 boyscc
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 boysnsubj
8'rebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 boyscop
9notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 boysadvmod
10properproperADJDegree=Pos11 boysamod
11boysboyNOUNNumber=Plur5 fightconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fightmustboysvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2not is apresentboys = boyproper boystree rules

Option 2

Only on Fridays

advmodcaserootOnlyADVonADPFridaysPROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnlyonlyADV_3 Fridaysadvmod
2ononADP_3 Fridayscase
3FridaysFridayPROPNNumber=Plurrootroot

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

Option 3

Yes, girls are too weak

discoursepunctnsubjcopadvmodrootYesINTJ,PUNCTgirlsNOUNareAUXtooADVweakADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos6 weakdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Yespunct
3girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur6 weaknsubj
4arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 weakcop
5tootooADV_6 weakadvmod
6weakweakADJDegree=Posrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentgirlsweak propertytree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, the rule about not hurting is the same for all

discoursepunctdetnsubjmarkadvmodaclcopdetcaseoblrootNoINTJ,PUNCTtheDETruleNOUNaboutSCONJnotPARThurtingVERBisAUXtheDETsameADJforADPallDET
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoINTJPolarity=Neg10 samediscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Nopunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 ruledet
4ruleruleNOUNNumber=Sing10 samensubj
5aboutaboutSCONJ_7 hurtingmark
6notnotPARTPolarity=Neg7 hurtingadvmod
7hurtinghurtVERBVerbForm=Ger4 ruleacl
8isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 samecop
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 samedet
10samesameADJDegree=Posrootroot
11forforADP_12 allcase
12allallDETPronType=Tot10 sameobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not hurtgerundthe rule not said herevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2ispresentthe rulefor all; same propertytree 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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