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Test 9 · ★★ · The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other an…

In a film, the family's «weird kid» is laughed at until the end. What's truer in real life?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: laugh, be · To what, where: weird kid, film, real life

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: In a film, the family's «weird kid» is laughed at until the end.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 family	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kid	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 family	case
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 kid	punct
9	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	nsubj:pass
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 kid	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	aux:pass
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	13 laughed	obl
15	until	until	ADP	_	17 end	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 end	det
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · passive		the family's weird kid		a film	until the end		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 truer in real life?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 truer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 truer	cop
3	truer	true	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 truer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 truer	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Different kids have no talents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kids	amod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 talents	det
5	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Different kids	no talents					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being different isn't being wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 different	cop
2	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wrong	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wrong	advmod
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						different property	tree rules
2	not is	present						wrong property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The weird kid should change to fit in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kid	det
2	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kid	amod
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fit	mark
7	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 change	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 fit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	should	the weird kid						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fit in	to-infinitive	the weird kid not said here						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Families never label children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 label	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 label	advmod
3	label	label	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 label	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not label	present	Families		children				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Destination

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.

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