Test 5 · ★ · Lies that grow: one lie needs three more
Callum's dad was chuffed about the hat-trick. How did he feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: chuff, feel · To what, where: dad
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 430 «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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: Callum's dad was chuffed about the hat-trick.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Callum | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chuffed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chuffed | aux:pass |
| 5 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 trick | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trick | det |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trick | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hat | punct |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chuffed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chuffed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | past · passive | Callum's dad | about the hat trick | 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: How did he feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 feel | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | dad | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Angry and upset
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 upset | cc |
| 3 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Angry | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pleased and proud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 proud | cc |
| 3 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pleased | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Scared and worried
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 worried | cc |
| 3 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Scared | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Bored and tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tired | cc |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bored | conj |
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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