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Test 8 · The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door

In a cartoon, a grumpy neighbour is just evil and gets a pie in the face. What's more often true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grumpy neighbour · What happens: be, get · To what, where: cartoon, pie, face

This is test 8 of lesson 473 «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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: In a cartoon, a grumpy neighbour is just evil and gets a pie in the face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evil	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neighbour	amod
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evil	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 evil	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 evil	advmod
10	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gets	cc
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 evil	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pie	det
14	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 face	det
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gets	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 evil	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a grumpy neighbour			a cartoon		evil property	tree rules
2	get	present	a grumpy neighbour not said here	a pie		the face			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pie=Stimulus

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's more often true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 often	advmod
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						often, true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Grumpy neighbours are always secret villains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 neighbours	amod
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 villains	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 villains	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 secret	advmod
5	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 villains	amod
6	villains	villain	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Grumpy neighbours	secret villains					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grumpy people often have hard lives or are lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lives	amod
6	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 lonely	cc
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lonely	cop
9	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Grumpy people	hard lives				often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient
2	is	present	Grumpy people not said here					lonely property	tree rules

Option 3

Pies fix grumpy people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fix	nsubj
2	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present	Pies	grumpy people					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4

Grumpy people never change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 change	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	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 change	present	Grumpy people						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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