Test 1 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group
Kieran after calling Sam «Sam-wich» in front of everyone: «chill, it's bants». Is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran, front · What happens: call, chill, be · To what, where: Sam, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 468 «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 after calling Sam «Sam-wich» in front of everyone: «chill, it's bants».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 calling | mark |
| 3 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | obj |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 wich | punct |
| 6 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wich | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wich | punct |
| 8 | wich | wich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | xcomp |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 wich | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 everyone | case |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 front | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 chill | punct |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 chill | punct |
| 16 | chill | chill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 calling | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bants | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bants | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bants | cop |
| 20 | bants | bant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 chill | ccomp |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 bants | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 calling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | gerund | Kieran | Sam | front of everyone | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient | |||
| 2 | chill in a quote | infinitive | Kieran not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | front | bant 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: Is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Is | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | front | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, if he says it's banter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 says | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 says | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 banter | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 banter | cop |
| 8 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | banter | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, Sam-wich is a funny name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 name | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wich | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sam | punct |
| 5 | wich | wich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 8 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 name | amod |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sam wich | a funny name | tree rules |
Option 3
No, banter only happens online
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 banter | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | banter | banter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happens | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 happens | advmod |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | online | online | ADV | _ | 5 happens | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | banter | online property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, not if only one of them is laughing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 one | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 one | mark |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 laughing | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughing | aux |
| 10 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | one of them | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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