Test 7 · Boredom, excitement and pride

What happens when someone keeps boasting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone · What happens: happen, keep, boast

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 keeps	advmod
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
6	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keeps	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	happen	present		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	someone	tree rules
3	boast speech: other	gerund	someone not said here	vn complain-37.8 «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

Everyone admires them more and more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 admires	nsubj
2	admires	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 admires	obj
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 admires	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 more	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admire	present	Everyone	them = they					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Others feel small and may not want to play with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 want	cc
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feel	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 want	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Others	small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not want	may	Others not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Others not said here	with Others = other	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme

Option 3

People want to buy the same things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 buy	mark
4	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 things	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	People						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	buy not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here	the same things					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme

Option 4

They get more friends and invitations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 invitations	cc
6	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friends	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	They	more friends and invitations					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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