Test 10 · The row over a game
«it was just a joke, why u so salty??» («salty» means upset or bitter.) Mia was hurt. Who should listen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, salty · What happens: be, mean, hurt, listen · To what, where: joke, Mia
This is test 10 of lesson 475 «The row over a game» 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: «it was just a joke, why u so salty??»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joke | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 joke | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 why | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 joke | nmod |
| 9 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 why | nsubj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 salty | advmod |
| 11 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 why | advcl |
| 12 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | it | a joke | 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: («salty» means upset or bitter.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 salty | punct |
| 3 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 salty | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | xcomp |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 bitter | cc |
| 8 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 upset | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | salty | upset property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Mia was hurt.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hurt | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurt | aux:pass |
| 3 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past · passive | Mia | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Sentence 4: Who should listen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 listen | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 listen | aux |
| 3 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 listen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | should | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Nobody, jokes never hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 jokes | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 hurt | advmod |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hurt | past | Nobody jokes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The friend who joked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 joked | nsubj |
| 4 | joked | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 friend | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | past | the friend | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only Mia's teacher at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 teacher | advmod |
| 2 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Mia | case |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 school | case |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teacher | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only Mia's mum, nobody else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 mum | advmod |
| 2 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Mia | case |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nobody | punct |
| 6 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 mum | conj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 nobody | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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