Test 3 · Adults who help and adults who don't
teacher to Maddie: «well ur a tomboy, what d'ya expect». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: d'ya · What happens: expect, be · To what, where: tomboy
This is test 3 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: teacher to Maddie: «well ur a tomboy, what d'ya expect».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tomboy | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Maddie | case |
| 3 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 teacher | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tomboy | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 tomboy | punct |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 tomboy | advmod |
| 7 | ur | ur | ADP | _ | 9 tomboy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tomboy | det |
| 9 | tomboy | tomboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expect | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 expect | obj |
| 12 | d'ya | d'ya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 expect | nsubj |
| 13 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tomboy | parataxis |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 expect | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tomboy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect in a quote | infinitive | d'ya | a tomboy | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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: What's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Liking football doesn't make anyone a fighter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liking | like | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 make | csubj |
| 2 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Liking | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fighter | det |
| 8 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | gerund | football | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot football=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | Liking | a fighter | anyone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset anyone=Beneficiary fighter=Product |
Option 2
Maddie should wear a dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 wear | aux |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dress | det |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | should | Maddie | a dress | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
Option 3
Tomboys always fight, that's what makes them tomboys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomboys | tomboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 fight | advmod |
| 3 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 what | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 what | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | cop |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 fight | conj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | tomboys | tomboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | Tomboys | always property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Tomboys = tomboy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary tomboy=Product |
Option 4
The teacher is being kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the teacher | kind 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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