Test 2 · Needles and brave faces
You cried at the dentist and feel embarrassed. Best thought?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: cry, feel, think · To what, where: dentist
This is test 2 of lesson 32 «Needles and brave faces» of the medicine 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: You cried at the dentist and feel embarrassed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dentist | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dentist | det |
| 5 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feel | cc |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | conj |
| 8 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | You | the dentist | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dentist=Location | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | You not said here | embarrassed 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: Best thought?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 thought | advmod |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
I should never go back to the dentist again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 dentist | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dentist | det |
| 8 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go back | should | I | again | to the dentist result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dentist=Result |
Option 2
Dentists hate criers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | criers | crier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Dentists | criers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crier=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Crying is normal, and I still did it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | cop |
| 3 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 did | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | normal property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | past | I | it | still | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 4
I'm a baby now and everyone knows it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 baby | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 baby | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 baby | det |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 baby | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 knows | cc |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 baby | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a baby | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | everyone | baby | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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