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Test 2 · Adults who help and adults who don't

«my nan says boys will be boys, so fighting's fine». Is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nan, fighting · What happens: say, be · To what, where: boys · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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: «my nan says boys will be boys, so fighting's fine».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nan	nmod:poss
3	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	obj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 boys	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 boys	cop
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 boys	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
11	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fine	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my nan	boys					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	is a in a quote	future		boys					tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	fighting					fine property	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: Is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Is	nsubj
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	fighting						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's an excuse; boys can learn not to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 excuse	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 excuse	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 excuse	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 excuse	det
6	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 learn	punct
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 learn	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 learn	aux
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 excuse	parataxis
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fight	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fight	mark
13	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a excuse					tree rules
2	learn	can	boys						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not fight	to-infinitive	boys not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only on the street, not at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 street	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 street	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 street	det
4	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 school	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 school	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 school	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 street	conj

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

Option 3

Yes, nans know best, they've seen it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nans	nan	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	parataxis
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 know	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
8	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	nans					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	see	present · perfect	nans = nan	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, but only for boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 boys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 boys	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 boys	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 boys	case
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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