Test 4 · ★★ · The group chat that turns
Connor: «it was a joke, Ollie's not even in the chat». What does the lesson say?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Connor, Ollie, lesson · What happens: be, not be, say · To what, where: joke, chat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 479 «The group chat that turns» 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: Connor: «it was a joke, Ollie's not even in the chat».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 joke | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 joke | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chat | punct |
| 9 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 chat | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 chat | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 chat | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 chat | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 chat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chat | det |
| 15 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 joke | appos |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 chat | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Connor | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Ollie | the chat | 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 the lesson say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | the lesson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Words in chats still hit real people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 chats | case |
| 3 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Words | nmod |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 hit | advmod |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Words in chats | real people | still | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Co-Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Bin jokes are always funny, so it's fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jokes | compound |
| 2 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 funny | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 funny | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 funny | advmod |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fine | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fine | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fine | expl |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fine | cop |
| 10 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 funny | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bin jokes | always, funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Bin jokes not said here | fine property | tree rules |
Option 3
If he's not in it, then it's totally harmless
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 it | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 it | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 it | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 harmless | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 harmless | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 harmless | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 harmless | cop |
| 11 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 12 harmless | advmod |
| 12 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 it | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | he | it | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | then | harmless, totally property | tree rules |
Option 4
Ollie should toughen up and laugh along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 toughen | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 toughen | aux |
| 3 | toughen | toughen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 toughen | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laugh | cc |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 toughen | conj |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 laugh | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toughen up | should | Ollie | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | laugh | infinitive | Ollie not said here | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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