Test 18 · ★ · Sun, cold and growing up
everyone's laughing that Tom's voice keeps cracking in class, they're doing impressions, should i
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, voice, they · What happens: laugh, keep, crack, do · To what, where: class, impressions
This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 86 «Sun, cold and growing up» 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 laughing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | aux |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 keeps | mark |
| 5 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Tom | case |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | advcl |
| 9 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 keeps | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 class | case |
| 11 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cracking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 doing | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doing | nsubj |
| 14 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 doing | aux |
| 15 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 laughing | conj |
| 16 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 doing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 should | punct |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | advcl |
| 19 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 should | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | Tom's voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crack | gerund | Tom's voice not said here | class | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in class=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | present · progressive | they | impressions | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Eventuality |
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
Yes, because his voice is cracking on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 cracking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cracking | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 cracking | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 voice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cracking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cracking | aux |
| 7 | cracking | crack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 purpose | case |
| 9 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cracking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present · progressive | his voice | purpose | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, voices crack as they grow in puberty; do not join in the teasing
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 crack | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crack | nsubj |
| 4 | crack | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 crack | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 puberty | case |
| 9 | puberty | puberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grow | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 join | punct |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 join | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 join | advmod |
| 13 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 crack | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 teasing | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 teasing | det |
| 16 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 join | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crack | present | voices | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | present | voices = voice | puberty | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in puberty=Location | ||||
| 3 | not join | infinitive · do-support | voices not said here | in the teasing | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in teasing=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, but only when the teacher is not looking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 looking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 looking | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 looking | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teacher | det |
| 7 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 looking | advmod |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | present · progressive | the teacher | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yes, it is only a joke, he will not mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 joke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 joke | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 joke | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 joke | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 joke | det |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 joke | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 mind | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mind | advmod |
| 12 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 joke | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not mind | future | he | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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