Test 7 · ★★ · Shouty parents and bad days
Molly-Rae's mate: «your mum called you a muppet, that's well harsh». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, that · What happens: call, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Molly-Rae's mate: «your mum called you a muppet, that's well harsh».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rae | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Molly | punct |
| 3 | Rae | Rae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mate | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Rae | case |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 muppet | det |
| 13 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 harsh | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 harsh | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 harsh | cop |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 harsh | advmod |
| 18 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 muppet | parataxis |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 harsh | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | past | Molly Rae's mate | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | harsh, well property | 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'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 · ✓ the right answer
Her mum said it fondly with a hug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hug | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hug | det |
| 8 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Her mum | it | with a hug; fondly property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme with hug=Manner |
Option 2
Her mum thinks she's a TV puppet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 puppet | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 puppet | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 puppet | det |
| 7 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 puppet | compound |
| 8 | puppet | puppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thinks | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Her mum | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | mum | a TV puppet | tree rules |
Option 3
Her mum was really, really angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Her mum | angry property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
It's the worst thing a mum can say
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 | 5 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mum | det |
| 7 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 say | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 say | aux |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | the worst thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | a mum | the worst thing not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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