Test 4 · ★ · Disappointment, jealousy and embarrassment
A girl in Perth feels everyone is looking after she falls on the stage. What is most likely true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, everyone · What happens: feel, look, fall, be · To what, where: stage
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Perth feels everyone is looking after she falls on the stage.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Perth | case |
| 4 | Perth | Perth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | aux |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 feels | xcomp |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 falls | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 falls | nsubj |
| 11 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stage | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stage | det |
| 14 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 falls | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a girl in Perth | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | present · progressive | everyone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fall | present | girl | the stage | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stage=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: What is most likely true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 likely | advmod |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 5 true | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely, true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Everyone will talk about it at school for the rest of the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 talk | aux |
| 3 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 talk | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rest | det |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 talk | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | future | Everyone | school | about it; for the rest of the year | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She will never be able to go on a stage again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 able | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stage | det |
| 10 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | She | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | She not said here | a stage | again | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on stage=Location |
Option 3
Nobody else has ever fallen in front of people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 2 | else | else | ADV | _ | 1 Nobody | advmod |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 fallen | advmod |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fallen | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 front | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present · perfect | Nobody | front of people | ever | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
People forget quickly, because everyone falls sometimes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 forget | nsubj |
| 2 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 forget | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 falls | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 falls | mark |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 falls | nsubj |
| 7 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 forget | conj |
| 8 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 falls | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | People | quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | everyone | sometimes property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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