Test 9 · ★★ · Boasting cousins and made-up holidays
Your friend's holiday story is mostly true with one wild bit. What's the friendly approach?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: holiday story, friendly approach · What happens: be
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 435 «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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: Your friend's holiday story is mostly true with one wild bit.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 true | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 true | cop |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 true | advmod |
| 8 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bit | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 bit | nummod |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bit | amod |
| 12 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 true | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your friend's holiday story | with one wild bit; mostly, true property | 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: What's the friendly approach?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 approach | det |
| 4 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 approach | amod |
| 5 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the friendly approach | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Enjoy it — you don't have to call out every stretch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Enjoy | obj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Enjoy | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 call | compound:prt |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 stretch | det |
| 12 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | imperative | you not said here | it | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not have | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | every stretch | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stretch=Recipient |
Option 2
Never talk to them again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 talk | advmod |
| 2 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 talk | obl |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 talk | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not talk | imperative | you not said here | them = they | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent |
Option 3
Check everything online at once, while they talk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Check | obj |
| 3 | online | online | ADV | _ | 1 Check | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Check | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 talk | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 talk | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 talk | nsubj |
| 9 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | everything | online property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | present | they | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Shout «liar!» in front of everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 liar | punct |
| 3 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shout | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 liar | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 liar | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shout | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 everyone | case |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 front | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | liar | front of everyone | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liar=Topic |
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