Test 4 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away
Jake: «Ryan said we'd hang out and we didn't, he's a liar». What's fairer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jake, we, Ryan · What happens: say, hang out, not do, be · To what, where: liar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 463 «The best friend who moves away» 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: Jake: «Ryan said we'd hang out and we didn't, he's a liar».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jake | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | Ryan | Ryan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hang | nsubj |
| 7 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 hang | aux |
| 8 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hang | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hang | conj |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 did | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 liar | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 liar | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 liar | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 liar | det |
| 18 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hang | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 liar | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Jake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hang out in a quote | would | we | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | past | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Ryan | a liar | 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 fairer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 fairer | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fairer | cop |
| 3 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's just harder without seeing each other daily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 harder | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 harder | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 harder | advmod |
| 4 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 6 seeing | mark |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 harder | advcl |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 seeing | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seeing | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | each | daily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
Option 2
Jake did something wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Jake | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
Option 3
Ryan was always planning to dump him once he'd moved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan | Ryan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 planning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 planning | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 planning | advmod |
| 4 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dump | mark |
| 6 | dump | dump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 planning | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dump | obj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 moved | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moved | aux |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dump | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | past · progressive | Ryan | always property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dump not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ryan not said here | Ryan | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | move | past · perfect · passive | Ryan | once property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
Option 4
Friends who move always lie
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 move | nsubj |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Friends | acl:relcl |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 move | advmod |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | Friends | always property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | Friends | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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