Test 18 · ★ · Handling anger

Liam lost his temper n cried at footy, the lads are making a video of it to send round

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Liam, temper n, lads · What happens: lose, cry, make, send · To what, where: footy, video

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 89 «Handling anger» 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	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 n	nmod:poss
4	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 n	compound
5	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 footy	case
8	footy	footy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 making	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lads	det
11	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 making	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 making	aux
13	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lost	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 video	det
15	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 making	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 video	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 send	mark
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 making	advcl
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Liam				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Liam's temper n		footy		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at footy=Location
3	make	present · progressive	the lads	a video of n			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset video=Product
4	send	to-infinitive	the lads not said here			round property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Do not share it; everyone gets angry, and spreading it would be cruel

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 share	advmod
3	share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 share	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 share	advcl
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cruel	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cruel	cc
11	spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 cruel	csubj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spreading	obj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 cruel	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 cruel	cop
15	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 share	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not share	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		tree rules
2	get	present	everyone		angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	spread	gerund		it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	is	would	spreading		cruel property	tree rules

Option 2

Share it, it is only a laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Share	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 laugh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laugh	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laugh	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 laugh	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 laugh	det
8	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	is a	present	it	a laugh					tree rules

Option 3

Share it, but blur his face a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Share	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blur	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 blur	cc
5	blur	blur	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Share	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blur	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blur	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	blur	infinitive	you not said here	his face				a bit obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient

Option 4

Share it so he learns not to cry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Share	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 learns	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 learns	nsubj
5	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Share	advcl
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 cry	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cry	mark
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learns	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here	it	tree rules
2	learn	present	he		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not cry speech: express	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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