Test 12 · ★ · Your body and how you look

can we laugh at his big glasses he cant hear us

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we, he · What happens: laugh, cant, hear · To what, where: big glasses, us

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 88 «Your body and how you look» 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 laugh	nsubj
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 glasses	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 glasses	nmod:poss
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glasses	amod
7	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laugh	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cant	nsubj
9	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glasses	conj
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laugh	conj
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	can	we		his big glasses and cant	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cant		he			tree rules
3	hear	infinitive	we not said here	us		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus

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, it's fine if he cannot hear you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 hear	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hear	advmod
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fine	csubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	not hear a condition, not said to happen	can	he	you					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, never make fun of how people look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 look	advmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fun	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	imperative	you not said here	fun					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product
2	look	present	people						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, glasses are funny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 funny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 funny	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 funny	cop
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	glasses					funny property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if everyone else is laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 laughing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laughing	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 laughing	mark
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 laughing	nsubj
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 everyone	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 laughing	aux
7	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	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

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