Test 7 · ★★ · The best friend who moves away
Kieran teased Maddie for years, then says he'll miss her. What's going on?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran · What happens: tease, say, miss, go on · To what, where: Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Kieran teased Maddie for years, then says he'll miss her.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 teased | nsubj |
| 2 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 teased | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teased | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 says | advmod |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 teased | parataxis |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 miss | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 miss | aux |
| 11 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 miss | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teased | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | past | Kieran | Maddie | year | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maddie=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | miss | future | Kieran | Maddie | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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: What's going on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 going | compound:prt |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
He wants her cupcake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cupcake | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cupcake | cupcake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | He | her cupcake | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cupcake=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Goodbyes often show how people really feel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goodbyes | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 show | advmod |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 feel | advmod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 feel | advmod |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Goodbyes | often property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | people | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He's being sarcastic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sarcastic | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sarcastic | cop |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sarcastic | cop |
| 4 | sarcastic | sarcastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | sarcastic property | tree rules |
Option 4
He's planning one last big prank before she goes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 planning | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 planning | aux |
| 3 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 prank | nummod |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prank | amod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prank | amod |
| 7 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planning | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 goes | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 planning | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plan | present · progressive | He | one last big prank | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present | she | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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