Test 10 · Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»
«grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em». What can you do?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups, you · What happens: grow, swear, not stop, do · To what, where: voice, em
This is test 10 of lesson 406 «Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»» 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: «grown-ups swear on voice all the time, can't stop em».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swear | nsubj |
| 5 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swear | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swear | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stop | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stop | advmod |
| 14 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | parataxis |
| 15 | em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stop | obj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 stop | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present | grown ups | voice | time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not stop in a quote | can | em = they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=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 can you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Swear back at them until they stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Swear | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Swear | obl |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Swear | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear back | imperative | you not said here | at them = they | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2
Unplug the router
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unplug | unplug | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 router | det |
| 3 | router | router | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Unplug | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unplug | imperative | you not said here | the router | tree rules |
Option 3
Nothing, you just have to sit and hear it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 have | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sit | mark |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hear | cc |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sit | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | Nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | infinitive | Nothing not said here | it | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Turn voice chat off or set it to friends only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chat | compound |
| 3 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Turn | compound:prt |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 set | cc |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn off | imperative | you not said here | voice chat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent chat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | you not said here | chat | to friends | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
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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