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Test 6 · ★★★ · What everyone learned about fights

Kieran's uncle used to say «hit back or be a target». What changed his mind?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: uncle · What happens: use, say, hit back, be, change, mind · To what, where: target, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 395 «What everyone learned about fights» 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's uncle used to say «hit back or be a target».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kieran	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 hit	advmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 target	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 target	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 target	det
13	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 hit	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Kieran's uncle						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Kieran's uncle not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hit back in a quote	infinitive							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	infinitive		a target					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 changed his mind?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mind	nmod:poss
4	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past		uncle's mind					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	mind		uncle						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Seeing Kieran do well with rules and teamwork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 well	aux
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Seeing	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 rules	case
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seeing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 teamwork	cc
8	teamwork	teamwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		Kieran				with rules and teamwork; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kieran=Stimulus

Option 2

Kieran beating someone up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beating	nsubj
2	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 beating	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 beating	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat up	gerund	Kieran	someone					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location someone=Theme

Option 3

Losing a fight himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fight	det
3	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Losing	obj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund		a fight				himself = he obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A strong letter from the police to his family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 letter	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 letter	amod
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 police	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 police	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 letter	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 family	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 police	nmod

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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