Test 4 · Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room
Gethin: «Owain doesn't even like me now, he's always on his phone». What's most likely true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gethin, Owain · What happens: not like, be · To what, where: me, phone
This is test 4 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: Gethin: «Owain doesn't even like me now, he's always on his phone».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gethin | Gethin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 like | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 4 | Owain | Owain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 like | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 like | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 like | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 like | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 like | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 phone | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 phone | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 phone | cop |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 phone | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 phone | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 phone | nmod:poss |
| 17 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 like | parataxis |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 phone | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like in a quote | present · do-support | Gethin | me | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Owain | Owain's phone | always 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 most likely true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely, true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Owain hates Gethin forever now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owain | Owain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hates | nsubj |
| 2 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gethin | Gethin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hates | obj |
| 4 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 hates | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hates | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Owain | Gethin | now | forever property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gethin=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Phones make brothers stop loving you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | xcomp |
| 5 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 loving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Phones | brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | brothers not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | love | gerund | brothers not said here | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 3
Gethin must have done something awful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gethin | Gethin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 done | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 done | obj |
| 6 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must · perfect | Gethin | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Teenagers often drift, and it can come back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drift | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 drift | advmod |
| 3 | drift | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 come | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drift | conj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | present | Teenagers | often property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come back | can | it | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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