Test 5 · How best friends start
«ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick». What does the speaker think?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chess, speaker · What happens: be, think
This is test 5 of lesson 461 «How best friends start» 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: «ur being dead mid about chess, it's actually sick».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 2 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dead | nmod:poss |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dead | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | mid | mid | X | _ | 4 dead | parataxis |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 chess | case |
| 7 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mid | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sick | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sick | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sick | cop |
| 11 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 12 sick | advmod |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dead | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dead | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | gerund | dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | chess | actually, sick 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 does the speaker think?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speaker | det |
| 4 | speaker | speaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | the speaker | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Chess is ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ill | cop |
| 3 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chess | ill property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Chess isn't boring, it's great
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boring | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 boring | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 boring | advmod |
| 4 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 great | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 great | cop |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boring | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Chess | boring property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Chess | great property | tree rules |
Option 3
Chess is too hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chess | hard property | tree rules |
Option 4
Chess is in the middle of the park
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 middle | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 park | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 park | det |
| 8 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Chess | the middle | of the park | tree rules |
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