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Test 4 · Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings

A boy in Melbourne gets cross that his little sister copies his dance. What is a kinder way to see it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, little sister · What happens: get, copy, dance, be, see · To what, where: cross, kinder way, way

This is test 4 of lesson 94 «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 boy in Melbourne gets cross that his little sister copies his dance.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Melbourne	case
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 copies	obj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sister	amod
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copies	nsubj
11	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	acl:relcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dance	nmod:poss
13	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 copies	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a boy in Melbourne	cross					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus
2	copy	present	boy's little sister	cross					tree rules
3	dance		boy						nom dance «communication transitive»: 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.

Sentence 2: What is a kinder way to see it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a kinder way					tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive		way					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

She copies him because she looks up to him

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	2 copies	nsubj
2	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copies	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 looks	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 copies	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 looks	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	She	him = he					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	look up	present	she		him = he				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme

Option 2

She has no ideas of her own at all

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 ideas	det
4	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ideas	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 own	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	She	no ideas of her own					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She copies him on purpose just to make him look silly

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	2 copies	nsubj
2	copies	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copies	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copies	obl
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 make	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 copies	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	She	him = he		purpose			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on purpose=Destination
2	make	to-infinitive	She not said here	him = he					tree rules
3	look	infinitive	him = he not said here					silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

She does it only to annoy their parents

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	6 annoy	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 annoy	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 annoy	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 annoy	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 annoy	mark
6	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 parents	nmod:poss
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 annoy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	annoy	present · do-support	She	their parents					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus parent=Experiencer

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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