Test 2 · A new baby
«Ellis is being a brat, it's a baby, get over it». What's the fairer view?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ellis, brat, fairer view · What happens: be, get · To what, where: brat, baby
This is test 2 of lesson 504 «A new baby» 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: «Ellis is being a brat, it's a baby, get over it».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 brat | punct |
| 2 | Ellis | Ellis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brat | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brat | cop |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 brat | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 brat | det |
| 6 | brat | brat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baby | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brat | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 baby | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 baby | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 baby | parataxis |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | obl |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 baby | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Ellis | a brat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a brat | a baby | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | brat | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |
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 the fairer view?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 view | det |
| 4 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 view | amod |
| 5 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fairer view | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
He should pretend he's happy all the time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pretend | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pretend | aux |
| 3 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pretend | ccomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pretend | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | should | He | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | he | happy property | tree rules |
Option 2
Jealous kids are bad kids, full stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kids | amod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kids | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kids | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kids | amod |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stop | amod |
| 8 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kids | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Jealous kids | bad kids and full stop | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Ellis is the only kid who's ever felt this
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ellis | Ellis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kid | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kid | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 felt | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 felt | advmod |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 kid | acl:relcl |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 felt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Ellis | the only kid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present · passive | the only kid | this | ever | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Feeling jealous and forgotten is normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 normal | csubj |
| 2 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 forgotten | cc |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jealous | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 normal | cop |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | jealous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | forget | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Feeling | normal property | tree rules |
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