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Test 11 · ★ · The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff

«Thandi's sister made her walk behind, so she's ashamed of her». What's more likely?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: make, walk behind, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 500 «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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: «Thandi's sister made her walk behind, so she's ashamed of her».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
2	Thandi	Thandi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sister	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Thandi	case
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 walk	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ashamed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 ashamed	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ashamed	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 ashamed	cop
13	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ashamed	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 ashamed	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	past	Thandi's sister						tree rules
2	walk behind in a quote	infinitive	sister					behind property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	sister					of Thandi; ashamed 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 more likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1

It's a rule in every South African family

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	4 rule	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 family	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 family	det
7	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 family	compound
8	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 family	amod
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule		every South African family			tree rules

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

She wants to look cool in front of her friends

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 friends	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here					in front of her friends; cool property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme

Option 3

She's ashamed of her sister and always has been

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 ashamed	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ashamed	cop
3	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 sister	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ashamed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 been	cc
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 been	advmod
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 been	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 ashamed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					of her sister; ashamed property	tree rules

Option 4

Thandi did something terrible that morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thandi	Thandi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 did	obj
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 something	amod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Thandi	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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