Test 19 · ★ · Washing your body and caring for your hair
everyone's sayin Lily got nits cos her family's filthy, should i tell people
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sayin, i · What happens: get, tell · To what, where: nits, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 76 «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 sayin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 everyone | case |
| 3 | sayin | sayin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sayin | appos |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nits | nit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 11 filthy | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 filthy | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 family | case |
| 11 | filthy | filthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tell | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 filthy | punct |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | conj |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tell | iobj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | everyone's sayin | nits | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | should | i | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, but only to her best friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 friends | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 friends | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 friends | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, everyone needs to know they are dirty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 needs | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 needs | xcomp |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dirty | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dirty | cop |
| 9 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | everyone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | they | dirty property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, it's unkind and untrue; anyone can get lice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 unkind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 unkind | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unkind | cop |
| 5 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 untrue | cc |
| 7 | untrue | untrue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 unkind | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unkind | conj |
| 12 | lice | louse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | unkind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | get | can | anyone | lice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer louse=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yes, and tell people to stay away from her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 tell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stay | mark |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | xcomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 stay | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay away not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | from her = she; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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