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Test 6 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group

In a cartoon, the mean popular girl turns kind forever after one hug. What's more realistic?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mean popular girl · What happens: turn, be · To what, where: kind

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon, the mean popular girl turns kind forever after one hug.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
6	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
7	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	nsubj
9	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obj
11	forever	forever	ADV	_	9 turns	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 hug	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 hug	nummod
14	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turns	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the mean popular girl	kind			after one hug	in a cartoon; forever property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent kind=Patient in cartoon=Topic

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 more realistic?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 realistic	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 realistic	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 realistic	advmod
4	realistic	realistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 realistic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						realistic property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

One hug fixes everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hug	nummod
2	hug	hug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fixes	nsubj
3	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	One hug	everything					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

Option 2

Frenemies never change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frenemies	frenemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 change	advmod
3	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present	Frenemies			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A magic spell is needed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spell	amod
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		a magic spell					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Talking it through, or spending time with kinder friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Talking	obj
3	through	through	ADV	_	1 Talking	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spending	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 spending	cc
6	spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Talking	conj
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spending	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 friends	case
9	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 friends	amod
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	gerund		it				through property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	spend	gerund					time	with kinder friends	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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