Test 11 · ★ · Making peace between the streets
Kieran and Jake shook on «no more fights». What makes the deal last?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kieran, deal · What happens: shake on, make, last · To what, where: deal
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 394 «Making peace between the streets» 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 and Jake shook on «no more fights».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Jake | cc |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kieran | conj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 shook | compound:prt |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 fights | punct |
| 7 | no | no | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 fights | amod |
| 9 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 fights | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake on | past | Kieran and Jake | 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: What makes the deal last?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deal | det |
| 4 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the deal | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | last | infinitive | the deal not said here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A clear plan: walk away and tell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 2 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plan | amod |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 walk | punct |
| 5 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 plan | parataxis |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 walk | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tell | cc |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 walk | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | infinitive | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Shaking hands harder than before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hands | amod |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 harder | nsubj |
| 3 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 harder | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | gerund | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Never seeing each other again, not even at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 seeing | advmod |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 seeing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 school | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 school | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 school | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seeing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | gerund | each | school | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
Option 4
Telling nobody about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Telling | obj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Telling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | nobody | about it | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient about it=Topic |
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