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».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hit | advmod |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gotta | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gotta | cc |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gotta | compound |
| 9 | gotta | gotta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 innit | punct |
| 11 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hit | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hit in a quote | present · do-support | girls | boys gotta | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gotta=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | innit in a quote | infinitive | girls not said here | tree 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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 fight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | aux |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 boys | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 boys | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 boys | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 boys | advmod |
| 10 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 boys | amod |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fight | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | must | boys | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | boys = boy | proper boys | tree rules |
Option 2
Only on Fridays
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Fridays | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Fridays | case |
| 3 | Fridays | Friday | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, girls are too weak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 weak | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 weak | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 weak | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 weak | advmod |
| 6 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | girls | weak property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, the rule about not hurting is the same for all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 10 same | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rule | det |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 same | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 hurting | mark |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hurting | advmod |
| 7 | hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 rule | acl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 same | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 same | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | gerund | the rule not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the rule | for all; same property | tree 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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