Test 5 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no
Your friends call you a chicken for not jumping off the bridge into the river. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friends · What happens: call, not jump off, be · To what, where: you, bridge, river · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 of lesson 99 «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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: Your friends call you a chicken for not jumping off the bridge into the river.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | nsubj |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chicken | det |
| 6 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 jumping | mark |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 jumping | advmod |
| 9 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 call | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumping | obl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jumping | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Your friends | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not jump off | gerund | Your friends not said here | the bridge | the river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme into river=Trajectory |
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
You should jump but only feet first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 jump | aux |
| 3 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 feet | cc |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 feet | advmod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jump | conj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 jump | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | should | You | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Your safety matters more than looking brave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 safety | nmod:poss |
| 2 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matters | nsubj |
| 3 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 matters | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 looking | mark |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 matters | advcl |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | Your safety | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | Your safety not said here | brave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Being called a chicken is worse than getting hurt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 called | aux:pass |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 worse | csubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chicken | det |
| 4 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 worse | cop |
| 6 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 hurt | mark |
| 8 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hurt | aux:pass |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 worse | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund · passive | a chicken | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | is | present | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hurt | gerund · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
You should jump so they stop teasing you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 jump | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 jump | aux |
| 3 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 stop | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jump | advcl |
| 7 | teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 teasing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | should | You | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | they | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tease | gerund | they not said here | you | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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