Test 2 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group
«Harper said it's just a joke so Mia's being dramatic». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Harper, it, Mia · What happens: say, be · To what, where: joke · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: «Harper said it's just a joke so Mia's being dramatic».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | Harper | Harper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 joke | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 joke | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 joke | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 dramatic | mark |
| 10 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dramatic | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Mia | case |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 dramatic | cop |
| 13 | dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joke | advcl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 dramatic | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Harper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | gerund | Mia | dramatic 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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Mia should laugh along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 laugh | aux |
| 3 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 laugh | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | should | Mia | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Harper's right, it's harmless if she says it's only a joke
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harper | Harper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Harper | case |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 harmless | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 harmless | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harmless | cop |
| 7 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 says | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harmless | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 joke | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 joke | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joke | det |
| 15 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | Harper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | it | a joke | tree rules |
Option 3
Photos can't hurt anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | can | Photos | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Posting a private photo to laugh at someone isn't a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Posting | post | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 joke | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 photo | det |
| 3 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 photo | amod |
| 4 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Posting | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 laugh | mark |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Posting | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 someone | case |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 laugh | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 joke | cop |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 joke | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 joke | det |
| 12 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | post | gerund | a private photo | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | |||||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | someone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not be speech: other | present | Posting | a joke | tree rules |
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