Test 11 · Toxic players, swearing and «fishcakes»
Mia to her squad: «oi, keep it clean, my mum's in the kitchen». Is that ok?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, mum, that · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: squad, kitchen
This is test 11 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: Mia to her squad: «oi, keep it clean, my mum's in the kitchen».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 squad | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 squad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | squad | squad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 oi | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 oi | punct |
| 7 | oi | oi | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mia | punct |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kitchen | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mum | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kitchen | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 kitchen | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 kitchen | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Mia to Mia's squad oi | squad | clean property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | my mum | the kitchen | 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: Is that ok?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ok | cop |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ok | nsubj |
| 3 | ok | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ok | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | ok property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
No, only adults can make rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 make | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 adults | advmod |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | adults | rules | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Product |
Option 2
Yes, but only while mum listens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 listens | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 listens | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 listens | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 listens | advmod |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 listens | mark |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listens | nsubj |
| 7 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | mum | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No, friends must say whatever they want to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 say | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 want | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 want | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | must | friends | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want | present | friends = friend | whatever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yes, you can set the tone in your own games
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 set | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tone | det |
| 7 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 games | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 games | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 games | amod |
| 11 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | can | you | the tone | your own games | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tone=Theme in game=Destination |
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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