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Test 4 · Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work

Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue. Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Phil, Dad · What happens: crack, be, speak up · To what, where: nasty joke, barbecue, Dad

This is test 4 of lesson 482 «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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: Phil cracks a nasty joke about Mum at a barbecue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phil	Phil	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cracks	nsubj
2	cracks	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joke	amod
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracks	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Mum	case
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joke	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 barbecue	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 barbecue	det
10	barbecue	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cracks	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cracks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	present	Phil	a nasty joke		a barbecue		about Mum	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joke=Theme

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: Is Dad being rude to a friend by speaking up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Dad	cop
2	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rude	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rude	cop
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 friend	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rude	obl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 speaking	mark
9	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rude	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 speaking	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Dad					tree rules
2	is	gerund	Dad					to a friend; rude property	tree rules
3	speak up speech: other	gerund	Dad not said here						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, even old friends must respect your family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 respect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 respect	punct
3	even	even	ADV	_	5 friends	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 friends	amod
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 respect	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 respect	aux
7	respect	respect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 family	nmod:poss
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 respect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respect	must	old friends	your family					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Stimulus

Option 2

Yes, jokes are always fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fine	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, you should never stand up to your friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 stand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stand	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 stand	advmod
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stand	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 friends	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand up	should	you					to your friends	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

No, but he should hit Phil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 hit	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hit	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux
6	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Phil	Phil	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	should	he	Phil					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme phil=Co-Theme

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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