Test 11 · Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room
Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?» Which is the strong move?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Mum · What happens: wind up, do, be · To what, where: you, strong move
This is test 11 of lesson 508 «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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: Mum: «Brandon, your brother's winding you up again, what d'you do?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brandon | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brandon | punct |
| 4 | Brandon | Brandon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 winding | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 winding | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 winding | aux |
| 9 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Brandon | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 winding | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 winding | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 winding | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 15 | d'you | d'you | X | Foreign=Yes | 16 do | dep |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wind up in a quote | present · progressive | your brother | you | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | Mum | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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: Which is the strong move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 move | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the strong move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Break something of his
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Break | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 his | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 something | nmod:poss |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | imperative | you not said here | something | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Walk away before it heats up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Walk | advmod |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 heats | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heats | nsubj |
| 5 | heats | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 heats | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | heat up | present | it | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Kick him first to show who's boss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Kick | obj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Kick | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 show | mark |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Kick | advcl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 boss | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boss | cop |
| 8 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | imperative | you not said here | him = he | first property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | boss | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Shout louder than him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Shout | xcomp |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 louder | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room/t11/