Test 6 · Mia gets the newest console
«why's Leo suddenly ur best mate?? he never talked to u before». What's fair to think?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: be, not talk, u, think · To what, where: Leo, best mate
This is test 6 of lesson 396 «Mia gets the newest console» 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: «why's Leo suddenly ur best mate?? he never talked to u before».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Leo | punct |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 Leo | advmod |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Leo | cop |
| 4 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 mate | advmod |
| 6 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mate | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 mate | amod |
| 8 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Leo | appos |
| 9 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mate | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 talked | nsubj |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 talked | advmod |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mate | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 u | case |
| 14 | u | u | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 talked | xcomp |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 u | advmod |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 u | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Leo | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Leo | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not talk in a quote | past | Leo | ur's best mate not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | u in a quote | infinitive | Leo not said here | before property | 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's fair to think?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fair | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 think | mark |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fair | csubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
I should give him the console
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 console | det |
| 6 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | should | I | the console | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient console=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He might like the console more than me, so I'll notice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 like | aux |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 console | det |
| 5 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 like | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 like | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 notice | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 notice | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 notice | nsubj |
| 12 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 notice | aux |
| 13 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 like | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | might | He | the console | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot console=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | future | I | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
He must have always secretly liked me and was too shy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 liked | advmod |
| 5 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 6 liked | advmod |
| 6 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 liked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shy | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shy | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 shy | advmod |
| 11 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 liked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | He | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | like | past | He not said here | me | always, secretly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | He not said here | shy property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
He's definitely a bad person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 person | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 3 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 6 person | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | He | a bad person | definitely property | tree rules |
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