Test 8 · Mistakes, asking for help and saying no
Your sister broke your mum's mug and you laugh at her. What would be kinder?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, you · What happens: break, laugh, be · To what, where: mug
This is test 8 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 sister broke your mum's mug and you laugh at her.
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 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mug | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mum | case |
| 7 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laugh | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 laugh | nsubj |
| 10 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 broke | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laugh | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Your sister | your mum's mug | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mug=Patient | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | you | at sister | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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.
Sentence 2: What would be kinder?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 kinder | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kinder | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kinder | cop |
| 4 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kinder | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | kind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Laugh more so she sees it is no big deal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Laugh | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 sees | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Laugh | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 deal | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deal | cop |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 deal | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deal | amod |
| 10 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | present | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | it | no big deal | tree rules |
Option 2
Tell your mum as fast as you can
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 can | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 can | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | your mum | fast property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Tell her she always breaks things
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 breaks | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 breaks | advmod |
| 5 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 breaks | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | break | present | she | things | always property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Be kind, because you would want the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kind | cop |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 want | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 want | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 want | aux |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kind | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 same | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 want | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | would | you | the same | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot same=Theme |
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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