Test 11 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days

Aimee: «Dad only kicked the tyre, not me, so I shouldn't feel scared». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, I · What happens: kick, not feel, be · To what, where: Aimee

This is test 11 · ★★ 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: Aimee: «Dad only kicked the tyre, not me, so I shouldn't feel scared».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aimee	Aimee	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kicked	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Aimee	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 kicked	punct
4	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicked	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 kicked	advmod
6	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tyre	det
8	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kicked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 me	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 me	advmod
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kicked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 feel	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 feel	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 feel	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 feel	advmod
17	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kicked	parataxis
18	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feel	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 feel	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick in a quote	past	Dad	Aimee				me obl	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient
2	not feel in a quote	should	I					scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

She's silly to feel scared, nobody got hurt at all

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	3 silly	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 silly	cop
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 silly	xcomp
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hurt	punct
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 hurt	nsubj:pass
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hurt	aux:pass
10	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 silly	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	She			silly property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive	She not said here			scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	hurt	past · passive		nobody	all		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's normal to feel scared seeing anger, even at a thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 normal	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 normal	cop
3	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 normal	csubj
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 scared	advcl
8	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thing	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 thing	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 thing	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 normal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		normal property	tree rules
2	feel	to-infinitive			scared property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	gerund		anger		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anger=Stimulus

Option 3

She should kick the tyre too so she feels braver

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	3 kick	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kick	aux
3	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tyre	det
5	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kick	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 kick	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 feels	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feels	nsubj
9	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kick	advcl
10	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 feels	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	should	She	the tyre					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient
2	feel	present	she					brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

She must never get in the car with her dad again

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 get	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 dad	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dad	nmod:poss
10	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
11	again	again	ADV	_	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	must	She			the car	again	with her dad	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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