Test 16 · Boredom, excitement and pride

so proud of my drawing i keep telling everyone im better than them

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i, my · What happens: keep, tell, draw · To what, where: everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 of lesson 93 «Boredom, excitement and pride» 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	so	so	ADV	_	2 proud	advmod
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	advcl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 drawing	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 drawing	nmod:poss
5	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 telling	iobj
10	im	im	ADV	_	11 better	advmod
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 telling	xcomp
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	i		of my drawing	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	i not said here	everyone	good property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
3	draw		my			nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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

Be proud but don't put others down, it hurts friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 proud	cop
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hurts	csubj
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 put	cc
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 put	advmod
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proud	conj
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 put	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hurts	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurts	nsubj
11	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			proud property	tree rules
2	not put down	infinitive · do-support		others	down property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Goal
3	hurt	present	it	friends		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Patient

Option 2

Rip up their drawings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rip	rip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Rip	compound:prt
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 drawings	nmod:poss
4	drawings	drawing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Rip	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rip up	imperative	you not said here	their drawings					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drawing=Patient
2	draw		their = they						nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Only talk about yours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 talk	advmod
2	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 yours	case
4	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	imperative	you not said here					about yours	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about your=Topic

Option 4

Keep telling everyone every day, it's true so it's fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 telling	iobj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 telling	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 true	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 fine	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fine	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	everyone	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
3	is	present	it			true property	tree rules
4	is	present	you not said here			fine property	tree rules

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