Test 10 · ★★★ · Thinking cleverly about people

new kid never talks to anyone, prob thinks hes better than us

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new kid, prob · What happens: not talk, think · To what, where: hes

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 60 «Thinking cleverly about people» 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	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kid	amod
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talks	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 talks	advmod
4	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 anyone	case
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 talks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thinks	punct
8	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thinks	nsubj
9	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talks	conj
10	hes	he	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thinks	obj
11	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 thinks	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 us	case
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	present	new kid					to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent
2	think speech: other	present	prob	hes				well property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is quiet because he is angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 quiet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 angry	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 angry	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 angry	cop
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quiet	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					quiet property	tree rules
2	is	present	he					angry property	tree rules

Option 2

He clearly does not like any of you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
2	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 like	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 any	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	He	any				clearly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot any=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He may be shy or new, not unfriendly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shy	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shy	cop
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 new	cc
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unfriendly	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 unfriendly	advmod
9	unfriendly	unfriendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	may	He	shy property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here		tree rules
3	not be		He not said here		tree rules

Option 4

He must be stuck up and rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stuck	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stuck	aux:pass
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stuck	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rude	cc
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	must · passive		He					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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