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Test 8 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something

Kieran stopped buying Shannon 99s and she stopped being nice. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kieran, that · What happens: stop, buy, be, show · To what, where: Shannon 99s

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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 stopped buying Shannon 99s and she stopped being nice.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	Shannon	Shannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 99s	compound
5	99s	99	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buying	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stopped	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 nice	cop
10	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stopped	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Kieran						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	buy	gerund	Kieran not said here	Shannon 99s					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 99=Theme
3	stop	past	Kieran						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	gerund	Kieran not said here					nice 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 does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Kieran was mean to stop and should say sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mean	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	cop
3	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	conj
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Kieran					mean property	tree rules
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kieran not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	should	Kieran not said here	sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic

Option 2

Shannon got ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shannon	Shannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Shannon					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Shannon loves Kieran secretly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shannon	Shannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loves	nsubj
2	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 loves	obj
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 loves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Shannon	Kieran				secretly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kieran=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Her kindness was only about the ice cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kindness	nmod:poss
2	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cream	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cream	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 cream	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 cream	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cream	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cream	compound
8	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her kindness					about the ice cream	tree rules

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