Test 9 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline
Ethan's mom: «I'll just shout louder so he hears me over the coach». What would happen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Ethan · What happens: shout, hear, happen · To what, where: me, coach
This is test 9 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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: Ethan's mom: «I'll just shout louder so he hears me over the coach».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethan | Ethan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mom | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ethan | case |
| 3 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 shout | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 shout | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 shout | nsubj |
| 7 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 shout | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 shout | advmod |
| 9 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mom | appos |
| 10 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 shout | xcomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hears | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hears | nsubj |
| 13 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shout | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hears | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 coach | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 coach | det |
| 17 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hears | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 coach | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mom | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express in a quote | future | I | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present | Ethan | me | the coach | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=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: What would happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The coach would stop talking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coach | det |
| 2 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | the coach | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | the coach not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Even more confusion; parents should just cheer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 confusion | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 confusion | amod |
| 3 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 confusion | punct |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cheer | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 cheer | aux |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 cheer | advmod |
| 8 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 confusion | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | should | parents | more confusion not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus confusion=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Ethan would hear only her voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethan | Ethan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 voice | advmod |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 voice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | would | Ethan | Ethan's voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
Option 4
He'd follow her and score every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 score | cc |
| 6 | score | score | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | conj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 score | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | would | He | her = she | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | score | infinitive | He not said here | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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