Test 1 · The new kid and the first day
«new girl's just standing there like a lemon, weird». What's most likely going on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new girl · What happens: stand, go on · To what, where: lemon
This is test 1 of lesson 465 «The new kid and the first day» 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: «new girl's just standing there like a lemon, weird».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 standing | advmod |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 standing | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 lemon | discourse |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lemon | det |
| 10 | lemon | lemon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 weird | punct |
| 12 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lemon | amod |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 weird | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | gerund | new girl | a lemon | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 most likely going on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 going | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present · progressive | likely property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She's ignoring everyone on purpose because she's posh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ignoring | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ignoring | aux |
| 3 | ignoring | ignore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 ignoring | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 purpose | case |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ignoring | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 posh | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 posh | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 posh | cop |
| 10 | posh | posh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ignoring | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | present · progressive | She | everyone | purpose | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | she | posh property | tree rules |
Option 2
She loves standing still
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loves | nsubj |
| 2 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 loves | xcomp |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 standing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | She | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stand not said to happen | gerund | She not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She's new and nobody's asked her to play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 new | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 new | cop |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | aux:pass |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 new | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | nobody | her = she | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
She's waiting for a bus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 waiting | aux |
| 3 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 bus | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bus | det |
| 6 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | She | for a bus | vn exist-47.1 «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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