Test 8 · Boredom, excitement and pride
A girl in Auckland feels happy and sad at once on her last day of primary school. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: feel, be
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Auckland feels happy and sad at once on her last day of primary school.
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 Auckland | case |
| 4 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feels | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sad | cc |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 happy | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 once | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 16 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 school | amod |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a girl in Auckland | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Big moments often bring more than one feeling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moments | amod |
| 2 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 one | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feeling | nummod |
| 8 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Big moments | one feeling | often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She must be confused about how she really feels inside
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 | 4 confused | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 confused | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 confused | cop |
| 4 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 9 feels | mark |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 feels | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feels | nsubj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 feels | advmod |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confused | advcl |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 feels | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | She | confused property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | she | inside property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
One of the feelings must be fake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fake | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 feelings | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 feelings | det |
| 4 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fake | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fake | cop |
| 7 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | One of the feelings | fake property | tree rules |
Option 4
Happy and sad cannot be felt together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 felt | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sad | cc |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Happy | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 felt | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 felt | aux:pass |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 felt | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | can · passive | together property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
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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