Test 1 · ★ · The kid who has it in for you
«Dean's been shoving me since Year 2 lol, it's just what he does». Should Sam just put up with it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dean, it, Sam · What happens: shove, be, do, put up · To what, where: me
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 471 «The kid who has it in for you» 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: «Dean's been shoving me since Year 2 lol, it's just what he does».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoving | punct |
| 2 | Dean | Dean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shoving | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shoving | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 shoving | aux |
| 5 | shoving | shove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shoving | obj |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shoving | obl |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Year | flat |
| 10 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 8 Year | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 what | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 what | advmod |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 shoving | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 does | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 does | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shoving | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove in a quote | present · progressive | Dean | me | since Year | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Dean | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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: Should Sam just put up with it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put up | should | Sam | with it | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Yes, grudges always fade on their own
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 fade | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | grudges | grudge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fade | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 fade | advmod |
| 5 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 own | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 own | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fade | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | present | grudges | grudges's own | always property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, telling makes it worse every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 telling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | csubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | telling | it | time | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
Option 3
No, shove him back harder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 shove | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | shove | shove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shove | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 shove | advmod |
| 6 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 shove | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove back | imperative | you not said here | him = he | hard property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, tell a teacher, that's how it stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 tell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 how | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 how | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 how | cop |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 tell | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stops | nsubj |
| 11 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 how | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | present | teacher | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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