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Test 8 · ★★ · Siblings as best mates and as rivals

In a cartoon, two brothers fight every episode and are never nice to each other. What's true about real siblings?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two brothers · What happens: fight, not be, be · To what, where: episode, cartoon

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 507 «Siblings as best mates and as rivals» 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: In a cartoon, two brothers fight every episode and are never nice to each other.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brothers	nummod
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	nsubj
7	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 episode	det
9	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nice	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nice	cop
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 nice	advmod
13	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fight	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 nice	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fight	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present	two brothers	every episode		a cartoon			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent episode=Co-Agent
2	not is	present	two brothers not said here					to each; nice 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 about real siblings?

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	about	about	ADP	_	6 siblings	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 siblings	amod
6	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Real siblings always hate each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 siblings	amod
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hate	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 hate	advmod
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 hate	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Real siblings	each				always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They can be rivals one minute and best mates the next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rivals	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rivals	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 rivals	cop
4	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 minute	nummod
6	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rivals	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mates	cc
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 mates	amod
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rivals	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 next	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rivals	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	They	rivals and best mates			minute		tree rules

Option 3

Brothers can't ever be a team

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 be	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 be	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 be	advmod
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 team	det
7	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not can	can	Brothers				ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Real siblings never fight at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 siblings	amod
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fight	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 fight	advmod
4	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fight	present	Real siblings			all			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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