Test 4 · ★ · The kid who has it in for you
Kayla trips Mia for the third time. What would most likely happen if Mia tells the teacher instead of tripping back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kayla, Mia · What happens: trip, happen, tell, trip back · To what, where: Mia, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Kayla trips Mia for the third time.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kayla | Kayla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | nsubj |
| 2 | trips | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trips | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trips | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | present | Kayla | Mia | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mia=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: What would most likely happen if Mia tells the teacher instead of tripping back?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 happen | advmod |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 tells | mark |
| 7 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | nsubj |
| 8 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teacher | det |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tells | obj |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 tripping | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | tripping | trip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tells | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 tripping | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | likely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | Mia | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | trip back | gerund | Mia not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Kayla would trip her ten more times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kayla | Kayla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 trip | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 trip | aux |
| 3 | trip | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trip | obj |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trip | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trip | would | Kayla | her = she | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent |
Option 2
Mia gets the blame for telling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blame | det |
| 4 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 telling | mark |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 blame | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Mia | the blame | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blame=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the blame not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Kayla gets sorted and nobody gets hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kayla | Kayla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sorted | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sorted | aux:pass |
| 3 | sorted | sort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hurt | cc |
| 5 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux:pass |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sorted | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | present · passive | Kayla | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present · passive | nobody | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 4
Nothing, teachers never help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 teachers | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 help | advmod |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | present | Nothing teachers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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