Test 14 · ★ · Worry and sadness

boys dont cry tho, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: cry

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 91 «Worry and sadness» 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	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cry	nsubj
2	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	1 boys	conj
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tho	tho	ADV	_	3 cry	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct
6	right	right	INTJ	_	3 cry	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	infinitive	boys					tho property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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

Right, boys should always hide their sadness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 hide	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hide	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hide	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 hide	advmod
6	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sadness	nmod:poss
8	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	should	boys	boys's sadness				always property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sadness=Patient

Option 2

Right, crying is only for girls and babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 crying	punct
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 girls	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 girls	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 girls	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 girls	case
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 babies	cc
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 girls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						for crying girls and babies	tree rules

Option 3

Boys may cry only when they are small, never once they grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cry	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	aux
3	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 small	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 small	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 small	cop
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cry	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 grow	advmod
11	once	once	SCONJ	_	13 grow	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cry	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	may	Boys		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Boys = boy	small property	tree rules
3	not grow up	present	Boys = boy		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Crying is healthy for everyone, boys too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 healthy	csubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 healthy	cop
3	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 everyone	case
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 healthy	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boys	punct
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 everyone	conj
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 boys	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Crying					for everyone; healthy property	tree rules

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