Test 8 · ★★ · Nice alone, mean in a group

Your mate is friendly at home but «doesn't know you» when the cool kids walk past. What could you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, cool kids, you · What happens: be, not know, walk, say · To what, where: home, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Your mate is friendly at home but «doesn't know you» when the cool kids walk past.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friendly	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 friendly	cop
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friendly	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 know	cc
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 know	advmod
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 friendly	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 walk	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kids	det
16	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 kids	amod
17	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 walk	nsubj
18	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	advcl
19	past	past	ADV	_	18 walk	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 friendly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your mate		home	friendly property	tree rules
2	not know in a quote	present · do-support	Your mate not said here	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	walk	present	the cool kids			past property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 could you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«I'll do it to you double»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	obl
8	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	future	I	it	you				tree rules

Option 2

«You're dead to me forever, so don't ever talk to me»

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dead	obl
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 talk	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 talk	advmod
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 talk	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 talk	advmod
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 talk	advmod
13	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 talk	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You		me			dead, forever property	tree rules
2	not talk in a quote	infinitive · do-support			me		ever		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«I don't like it when you do that in front of them»

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 do	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	advcl
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 do	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 front	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like in a quote	present · do-support	I	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	do in a quote	present	you	that		front of them			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 4

Nothing ever, just put up with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Nothing	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 put	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put up	infinitive						with it	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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