Test 10 · ★ · The copier and the one who competes at everything
Kieran copies Jake's haircut to fit in. Most likely result?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran · What happens: copy, fit in · To what, where: haircut
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 469 «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 copies Jake's haircut to fit in.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 copies | nsubj |
| 2 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 haircut | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Jake | case |
| 5 | haircut | haircut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copies | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fit | mark |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 copies | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fit | compound:prt |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 copies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | Kieran | Jake's haircut | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haircut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit in | to-infinitive | Kieran not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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: Most likely result?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 result | amod |
| 2 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 result | amod |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Everyone thinks he's Jake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Jake | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Jake | cop |
| 5 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Everyone | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | he | Jake | tree rules |
Option 2
He becomes leader
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 becomes | nsubj |
| 2 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | He | leader | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Jake thanks him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanks | nsubj |
| 2 | thanks | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | Jake | him = he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He gets teased as a copy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 teased | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 teased | aux:pass |
| 3 | teased | tease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 copy | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 copy | det |
| 6 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teased | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | present · passive | He | as a copy | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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