Test 5 · ★ · Sore losers and button-mashers
«nah not hungry» — Leo's sulking about losing, pizza's here. What usually happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: sulk, lose, happen · To what, where: pizza
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 398 «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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: «nah not hungry» — Leo's sulking about losing, pizza's here.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 2 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hungry | discourse |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 6 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| 7 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hungry | conj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Leo | case |
| 9 | sulking | sulk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Leo | acl |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 11 losing | mark |
| 11 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sulking | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pizza | punct |
| 13 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 losing | obj |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 pizza | case |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 losing | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sulk | gerund | Leo not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lose | gerund | Leo not said here | pizza | here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pizza=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: What usually happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Everyone saves him the best slices
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 saves | nsubj |
| 2 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saves | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 slices | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 slices | amod |
| 6 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present | Everyone | the best slices | him = he | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary slice=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He misses the good pizza
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 | 2 misses | nsubj |
| 2 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pizza | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pizza | amod |
| 5 | pizza | pizza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 misses | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | present | He | the good pizza | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pizza=Stimulus |
Option 3
He wins the next game for sure
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 | 2 wins | nsubj |
| 2 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 game | amod |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wins | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sure | case |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wins | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | He | the next game | for sure | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent game=Theme for sure=Beneficiary |
Option 4
The loss gets undone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the loss | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | undo | participle | the loss not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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