Test 19 · ★ · Solving disagreements calmly

heard Mia and Ava fell out over the swing, they're saying they'll never be friends again lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, they · What happens: hear, fall out, say, not be · To what, where: Mia, swing, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 54 «Solving disagreements calmly» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fell	cc
4	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 swing	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swing	det
9	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saying	nsubj
12	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	aux
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 heard	advcl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 friends	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 friends	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 friends	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 friends	cop
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 saying	ccomp
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 friends	advmod
20	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 heard	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past		Mia				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mia=Stimulus
2	fall out	past	Ava		the swing		out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over swing=Location
3	say speech: assert	present · progressive	they					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is a	future	they	friends		again		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It proves swings cause fights

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 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nsubj
4	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
5	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cause	present	swings	fights					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fight=Patient

Option 2

It means they should never play again, not even with other kids

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 play	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 play	advmod
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 play	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kids	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 kids	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 kids	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 kids	case
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kids	amod
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 means	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It					with other kids	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not play	should	they				again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Probably not true; friends fall out and can sort it out again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	3 true	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 true	advmod
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	nsubj
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 fall	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sort	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sort	aux
10	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fall	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sort	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 sort	compound:prt
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 sort	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	present	friends						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sort out	can	friends not said here	it			again		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

It must be true, falling out ends friendship

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	4 true	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 falling	punct
6	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ends	csubj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 falling	compound:prt
8	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	parataxis
9	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ends	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	must	It		true property	tree rules
2	fall out	gerund				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	end	present	falling	friendship		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality friendship=Eventuality

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