Test 2 · Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher

Your Gen Z cousin texts "that test was mid 💀". How is she feeling about the test?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin texts, she · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: mid 💀

This is test 2 of lesson 16 «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» of the language 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 Gen Z cousin texts "that test was mid 💀".

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	5 texts	nmod:poss
2	Gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Z	compound
3	Z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	compound
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 texts	compound
5	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 💀	nsubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 texts	punct
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 test	det
8	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 💀	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 💀	cop
10	mid	mid	ADJ	_	11 💀	amod
11	💀	💀	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 💀	punct
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 💀	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Your cousin texts	mid 💀					tree rules

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: How is she feeling about the test?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 feeling	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feeling	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feeling	nsubj
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 test	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 test	det
7	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feeling	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present · progressive	she					about the test	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about test=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was not great, kind of bad, and she's being dramatic about it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 great	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 great	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 great	advmod
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 kind	punct
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 great	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bad	case
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dramatic	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dramatic	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dramatic	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dramatic	cop
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 dramatic	cop
14	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 great	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dramatic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	It					great property	tree rules
2	is	present	she					about kind; dramatic property	tree rules

Option 2

The test was cancelled halfway through the lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 test	det
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cancelled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cancelled	aux:pass
4	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	4 cancelled	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 lesson	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lesson	det
8	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cancelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cancel	past · passive		the test		the lesson		halfway property	tree rules

Option 3

She did brilliantly and is very proud of it

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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brilliantly	brilliantly	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 proud	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 proud	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 proud	advmod
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	She					brilliantly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	She not said here					of it; proud property	tree rules

Option 4

She is really ill and has to go home now

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 ill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 has	cc
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 ill	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 has	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She		ill property	tree rules
2	have	present	She not said here			tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	She not said here	now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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