Test 9 · ★★★ · What everyone learned about fights
teacher: «what's one kind of courage that isn't fists?» Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, that · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: one kind, fists
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: teacher: «what's one kind of courage that isn't fists?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 kind | nummod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 teacher | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 courage | case |
| 9 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fists | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fists | cop |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fists | advmod |
| 13 | fists | fist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 courage | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | teacher | one kind | of courage and fists | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | that | fists | 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: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Shouting the loudest in the playground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 loudest | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 loudest | det |
| 3 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 playground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 playground | det |
| 6 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loudest | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Hitting someone bigger than you are
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Hitting | obj |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 someone | amod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bigger | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hitting | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hit property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Walking away and telling an adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 telling | cc |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walking | conj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 telling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | gerund | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
Option 4
Never saying sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saying | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: apologize | gerund | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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