Test 5 · ★★★ · Friends who get it
Megan says «mine split up too» to Ffion. Why does that help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Megan, that · What happens: say, split up, help · To what, where: Ffion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 525 «Friends who get it» 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: Megan says «mine split up too» to Ffion.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Megan | Megan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 split | nsubj |
| 5 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 split | compound:prt |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 split | advmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 split | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Ffion | case |
| 10 | Ffion | Ffion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 split | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Megan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | split up in a quote | past | Megan | Ffion | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: Why does that help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 help | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · do-support | that | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It makes Ffion feel worse
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 | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ffion | Ffion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | Ffion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | Ffion not said here | bad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Ffion now has to talk about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ffion | Ffion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 has | advmod |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 talk | mark |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ffion | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | Ffion not said here | about it | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Ffion feels less alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ffion | Ffion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 feels | nsubj |
| 2 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 alone | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feels | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Ffion | alone property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Megan wants to compare presents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Megan | Megan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 compare | mark |
| 4 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 compare | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Megan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compare not said to happen | to-infinitive | Megan not said here | presents | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient |
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