Test 2 · ★ · Solving disagreements calmly

Which sentence is most likely to calm a quarrel down?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: be, calm down · To what, where: quarrel

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 calm	mark
7	calm	calm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 quarrel	det
9	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 calm	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	7 calm	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which sentence					likely property	tree rules
2	calm down	to-infinitive	which sentence not said here	a quarrel					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

I feel left out when you two whisper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 feel	xcomp
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 left	compound:prt
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 you	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 feel	xcomp
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 whisper	nummod
8	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feel	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I	two whisper					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave out	participle	two whisper not said here						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody likes you anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 likes	obj
4	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	2 likes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Nobody	you				anyway property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

Option 3

I am never playing with either of you again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 playing	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 playing	advmod
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 either	case
6	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	4 playing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 either	nmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	4 playing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	present · progressive	I				again	with either	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with either=Theme

Option 4

You two are so rude and mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 rude	nsubj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 You	appos
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 rude	advmod
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mean	cc
7	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You					rude property	tree rules
2	be		You not said here						tree rules

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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