Test 2 · ★★★ · What a real friend is
«Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me». What did Lily decide?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace, I, Lily · What happens: be, gotta, make, like, decide · To what, where: Grace, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 485 «What a real friend is» 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: «Grace is so mean but I gotta make her like me».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 mean | advmod |
| 5 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gotta | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 gotta | nsubj |
| 8 | gotta | gotta | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | conj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gotta | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 like | obj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Grace | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gotta in a quote | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | Grace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | like in a quote | infinitive | Grace not said here | me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=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: What did Lily decide?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 decide | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 decide | aux |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 decide | nsubj |
| 4 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 decide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · do-support | Lily | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
She didn't need her, polite was enough
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 polite | punct |
| 7 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 need | xcomp |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 polite | cop |
| 9 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 polite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | past · do-support | She | her = she | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | past | her = she not said here | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | her = she not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She became just like Grace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 Grace | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Grace | case |
| 5 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | She | like Grace | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
She tried even harder to please her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 harder | advmod |
| 4 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 please | mark |
| 6 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 please | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | She | hard property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | please not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | her = she | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
Option 4
She stopped talking to everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stopped | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 everyone | case |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 talking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | She | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | She not said here | to everyone | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to everyone=Co-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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