Test 1 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days
«if ur parent shouts it means they hate u». True?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parent, it, they · What happens: shout, mean, hate · To what, where: u · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 494 «Shouty parents and bad days» 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: «if ur parent shouts it means they hate u».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 shouts | mark |
| 3 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parent | nmod:poss |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouts | nsubj |
| 5 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hate | nsubj |
| 9 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 10 | u | u | X | _ | 9 hate | obj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 hate | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | ur's parent | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hate in a quote | present | they | u | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer u=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: True?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 True | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yes, unless they buy you sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 buy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buy | punct |
| 3 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 5 buy | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 buy | iobj |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | they | sweets | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary sweet=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, shouting usually comes from stress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 shouting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 comes | csubj |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 comes | advmod |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 stress | case |
| 7 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come | present | shouting | stress | usually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from stress=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No, it means they're deaf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deaf | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 deaf | cop |
| 7 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | they | deaf property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yes, shouting always means hate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 shouting | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 means | advmod |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | shouting | hate | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hate=Topic |
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