Test 9 · «I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home
Grace: «nobody found out so it doesn't matter». Which is TRUE?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace, it · What happens: find out, not matter, be
This is test 9 of lesson 427 ««I did brush my teeth»: little lies at home» 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: Grace: «nobody found out so it doesn't matter».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grace | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 matter | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 matter | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 matter | advmod |
| 11 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | ccomp |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 matter | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out in a quote | past | Grace | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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: Which is TRUE?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 TRUE | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 TRUE | cop |
| 3 | TRUE | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 TRUE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nobody finding out means it was the right thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 means | nsubj |
| 2 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Nobody | acl |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 finding | compound:prt |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | gerund | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | Nobody | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | it | the right thing | tree rules |
Option 2
Broccoli doesn't count
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broccoli | broccoli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 count | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 count | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 count | advmod |
| 4 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | present · do-support | Broccoli | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She still felt bad, especially when praised
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 felt | advmod |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 praised | punct |
| 6 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 8 praised | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 praised | advmod |
| 8 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | She | still | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | praise | participle | She not said here | especially property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
She felt great all night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | She | night | great property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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