Test 19 · ★ · Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment

someone said Leo scratched Max's new bike cos he was jealous, they're telling everyone

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, Leo, they · What happens: say, scratch, be, tell · To what, where: new bike cos, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 92 «Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment» 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	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scratched	nsubj
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
5	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cos	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Max	case
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cos	amod
8	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cos	compound
9	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratched	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 jealous	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 jealous	cop
12	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cos	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 telling	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 telling	aux
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	ccomp
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 telling	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	someone				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scratch	past	Leo	Max's new bike cos			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cos=Theme
3	is	past	Leo	Max's new bike cos not said here		jealous property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	they		everyone		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=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

Scratch Leo's bike back to make it fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratch	scratch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bike	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Leo	case
4	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scratch	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	1 Scratch	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Scratch	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	imperative	you not said here	Leo's bike					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	bike				fair property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 2

Spread it, jealous people deserve to be shown up in front of everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deserve	punct
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserve	nsubj
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	9 shown	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 shown	aux:pass
9	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 deserve	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 shown	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 front	case
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shown	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 everyone	case
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	deserve	present	jealous people			tree rules
3	show up	to-infinitive · passive	jealous people not said here		front of everyone	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: in front=Location

Option 3

Spread it, but say you only heard it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Spread	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Spread	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 heard	advmod
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	spread	imperative	you not said here	it	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hear	past	you	it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do not spread it; it may not be true, and jealousy is normal but spoiling things is not

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 spread	advmod
3	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spread	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 true	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 true	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 true	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 true	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 true	cop
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spread	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 normal	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 normal	cc
13	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 normal	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 normal	cop
15	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 true	conj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 spoiling	cc
17	spoiling	spoil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 normal	conj
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spoiling	obj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 not	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 true	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not spread	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	not is	may	it		true property	tree rules
3	is	present	jealousy		normal property	tree rules
4	spoil	gerund	jealousy not said here	things		tree rules

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