Test 4 · Friends, teams and fair play
Your friend did not invite you to her party. What is a sensible way to react?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend · What happens: not invite, be, react · To what, where: you, sensible way
This is test 4 of lesson 52 «Friends, teams and fair play» 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: Your friend did not invite you to her party.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invite | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 invite | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 invite | advmod |
| 5 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 invite | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 party | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 party | nmod:poss |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invite | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 invite | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not invite | past · do-support | Your friend | you | to friend's party | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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 is a sensible way to react?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 react | mark |
| 7 | react | react | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sensible way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | react | to-infinitive | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Never invite her to anything again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 invite | advmod |
| 2 | invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invite | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 invite | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 invite | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not invite | imperative | you not said here | her = she | again | to anything | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Remember that she may have had to keep it small
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | aux |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Remember | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keep | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | may · perfect | she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | she not said here | it | small property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Tell everyone her party was boring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 party | nmod:poss |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boring | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boring | cop |
| 6 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | her party | boring property | tree rules |
Option 4
Decide that she was never really your friend at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 friend | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 friend | cop |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 friend | advmod |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 friend | advmod |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Decide | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Decide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | imperative | you not said here | all | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | she | your friend | tree rules |
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