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Test 2 · Big brothers

«it's only banter, bro, he laughs» — but Mateus cries later in his room. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, banter, Mateus · What happens: be, laugh, cry · To what, where: banter, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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: «it's only banter, bro, he laughs» — but Mateus cries later in his room.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 banter	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 banter	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 banter	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 banter	advmod
5	banter	banter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughs	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banter	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 banter	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughs	nsubj
10	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 laughs	punct
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	15 cries	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 cries	cc
14	Mateus	Mateus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cries	nsubj
15	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 laughs	conj
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 cries	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 room	nmod:poss
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cries	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	banter and bro					tree rules
2	laugh in a quote	present	banter and bro						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	present	Mateus			Mateus's room		late property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Brothers are allowed to say anything they like at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	aux:pass
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 say	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anything	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		Brothers					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Brothers not said here	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
3	like	present	Brothers = brother			home			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

It's banter if anyone is laughing at that moment

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 banter	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 banter	cop
3	banter	banter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 laughing	mark
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 laughing	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 laughing	aux
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 banter	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 moment	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 moment	det
10	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	banter					tree rules
2	laugh a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	anyone	banter not said here			moment		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banter=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's not a joke if one person isn't really laughing

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 joke	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joke	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 joke	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 joke	det
5	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 laughing	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 person	nummod
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laughing	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 laughing	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 laughing	advmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 laughing	advmod
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 joke	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules
2	not laugh a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	one person						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Crying later doesn't count, only the laugh counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 count	csubj
2	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Crying	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 count	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 count	advmod
5	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counts	punct
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 counts	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 laugh	det
9	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 counts	nsubj
10	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 count	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund						late property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not count	present · do-support	Crying						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	count	present	the laugh						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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