Test 6 · ★★ · Growing and sport
The tall lad sneers, "Shortie can't even reach the ball, LOL." What's the fact?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tall lad, Shortie, fact · What happens: sneer, not reach, be · To what, where: ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: The tall lad sneers, "Shortie can't even reach the ball, LOL."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sneers | nsubj |
| 4 | sneers | sneer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 7 | Shortie | Shortie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 8 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reach | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 reach | advmod |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 reach | advmod |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sneers | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ball | det |
| 13 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 15 | LOL | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 sneers | discourse |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneers | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sneers | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneer | present | the tall lad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not reach in a quote | can | Shortie | the ball | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ball=Theme |
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 the fact?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fact | det |
| 4 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fact | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Short kids should quit sport now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kids | amod |
| 2 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 quit | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 quit | aux |
| 4 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quit | obj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 quit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quit | should | Short kids | sport | now | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Source |
Option 2
Height at 10 decides your sport forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decides | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 10 | case |
| 3 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Height | nmod |
| 4 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sport | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decides | obj |
| 7 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 4 decides | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | Height at 10 | your sport | forever property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent sport=Topic | |||
| 2 | sport | your | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
The biggest kid will always be the best
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kid | det |
| 2 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 kid | amod |
| 3 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 best | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 best | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 best | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 best | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 best | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the biggest kid | always, good property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Late growers often catch up, and skill matters more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 growers | amod |
| 2 | growers | grower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 catch | advmod |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 catch | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 matters | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 matters | cc |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 matters | nsubj |
| 9 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 matters | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | present | Late growers | often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | matter | present | skill | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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