Test 6 · Eyes, backs and thumbs
Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol». What is he doing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Squad · What happens: bounce, do
This is test 6 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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: Squad on voice chat: «Jayden, why are you bouncing?? lol».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Squad | squad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bouncing | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 chat | case |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chat | compound |
| 4 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Squad | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jayden | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jayden | punct |
| 7 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bouncing | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bouncing | punct |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 bouncing | advmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bouncing | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bouncing | nsubj |
| 12 | bouncing | bounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 12 bouncing | punct |
| 14 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 12 bouncing | discourse |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 lol | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 bouncing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce in a quote | present · progressive | Squad on voice chat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 is he doing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 doing | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doing | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | Squad | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Celebrating that the game crashed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Celebrating | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 crashed | csubj |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 game | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Celebrating | advcl |
| 5 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | crash | past | Celebrating | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Trying to warm up his console
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 warm | mark |
| 3 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Trying | xcomp |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 warm | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 console | nmod:poss |
| 6 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warm | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | warm up not said to happen | to-infinitive | his console | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent console=Patient |
Option 3
Showing off that he won the match
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Showing | compound:prt |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 won | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 won | nsubj |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Showing | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 match | det |
| 7 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show off | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | win | past | he | the match | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A movement break between matches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 break | det |
| 2 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | compound |
| 3 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 matches | case |
| 5 | matches | match | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 break | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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