Test 11 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…
Becca: «she says I'm so cringe and slams her door, she hates me now». What's most likely?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Becca · What happens: say, be, slam, hate · To what, where: cringe, door, Becca · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 509 «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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: Becca: «she says I'm so cringe and slams her door, she hates me now».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becca | Becca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cringe | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cringe | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 cringe | advmod |
| 9 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slams | cc |
| 11 | slams | slam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 door | nmod:poss |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slams | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hates | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hates | nsubj |
| 16 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hates | obj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 hates | advmod |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 hates | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Becca | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Becca | cringe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slam in a quote | present | Becca not said here | Becca's door | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hate in a quote | present | Becca | Becca | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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?
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 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Becca should slam her door back louder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becca | Becca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slam | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slam | aux |
| 3 | slam | slam | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 door | nmod:poss |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slam | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 slam | advmod |
| 7 | louder | loud | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 slam | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slam back | should | Becca | Becca's door | loud property | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Her sister will hate her forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hate | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hate | aux |
| 4 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hate | obj |
| 6 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 hate | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | future | Her sister | her = she | forever property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It's a teenage phase that often passes
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 phase | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 phase | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 phase | det |
| 4 | teenage | teenage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 phase | amod |
| 5 | phase | phase | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 passes | nsubj |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 passes | advmod |
| 8 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 phase | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a teenage phase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | present | a teenage phase | often property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Becca did something terrible
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becca | Becca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Becca | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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