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Test 3 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group

Sam thinks: «Kieran ignored me, so I'll ignore him in front of my mates, that'll teach him». What would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sam, Kieran, that · What happens: think, ignore, teach, happen · To what, where: Sam, Kieran, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Sam thinks: «Kieran ignored me, so I'll ignore him in front of my mates, that'll teach him».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 ignored	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 ignored	punct
5	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ignored	nsubj
6	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ignored	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ignore	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 ignore	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ignore	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ignore	aux
12	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ignored	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ignore	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 front	case
15	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ignore	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mates	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mates	nmod:poss
18	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 front	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 teach	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 teach	nsubj
21	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 teach	aux
22	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ignore	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 teach	obj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 ignored	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Sam						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	ignore in a quote	past	Kieran	Sam					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	ignore in a quote	future	Sam	Kieran		front of my mates			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	teach speech: other in a quote	future	that		Kieran				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 would most likely happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Sam becomes popular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Sam					popular property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two people feel bad and nothing is fixed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fixed	cc
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 fixed	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fixed	aux:pass
8	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Two people					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	fix	present · passive		nothing					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

Option 3

The cool kids give Sam a medal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kids	amod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 medal	det
7	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the cool kids	a medal	Sam				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient medal=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Kieran learns and says sorry at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 learns	nsubj
2	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 says	cc
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 learns	conj
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 says	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	Kieran						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: apologize	present	Kieran not said here					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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