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Test 3 · ★★ · Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help

Kieran: «I only laughed, I didn't do nothing». Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran, I, that · What happens: laugh, not do, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 393 «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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: Kieran: «I only laughed, I didn't do nothing».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Kieran	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 laughed	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 do	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 do	advmod
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 laughed	ccomp
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 do	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	past	Kieran						tree rules
2	not do in a quote	past · do-support	I	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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: Is that right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Laughing stops fights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present		fights					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, laughing is just watching, not fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 watching	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 watching	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 watching	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 watching	advmod
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fighting	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fighting	advmod
9	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 watching	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	present · progressive							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	not fight	gerund							vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, only punches count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 punches	advmod
4	punches	punch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 count	nsubj
5	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	punches						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Laughing and cheering helped push the fight on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 helped	csubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 cheering	cc
3	cheering	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Laughing	conj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helped	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fight	det
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	5 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cheer	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	help	past	Laughing						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	push	infinitive	Laughing not said here	the fight					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme

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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