Test 11 · ★★ · Growing and sport
Kids call Tom "the fridge" until he's their rugby prop. What's true about teasing about size?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kids, Tom · What happens: call, be, tease · To what, where: Tom, rugby prop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Growing and sport» 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: Kids call Tom "the fridge" until he's their rugby prop.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fridge | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fridge | det |
| 6 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Tom | appos |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fridge | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 prop | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 prop | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 prop | cop |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prop | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rugby | rugby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prop | compound |
| 13 | prop | prop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Kids | Tom | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Tom | Kids's rugby prop | 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: What's true about teasing about size?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 5 teasing | mark |
| 5 | teasing | tease | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 true | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 size | case |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teasing | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tease | gerund | about size | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It's OK as long as you're only joking
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 | 3 OK | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 OK | cop |
| 3 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 OK | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 joking | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 joking | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 joking | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 joking | advmod |
| 10 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 long | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | long, ok property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | joke speech: other | present · progressive | you | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
It's fine if he's big and doesn't mind it
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 | 3 fine | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 big | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 big | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 big | cop |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fine | csubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mind | cc |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mind | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 mind | advmod |
| 11 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fine | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mind | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fine property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | he | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not mind | present · do-support | it | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
It makes people tougher and better at sport
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 | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | tougher | tough | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 better | cc |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 tougher | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sport | case |
| 8 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | people | sport | tough property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It's never OK, and every body is good at something
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 OK | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 OK | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 OK | advmod |
| 4 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 good | cc |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 good | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | cop |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 OK | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 something | case |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 good | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | ok property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | every body | something | good property | tree rules |
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