Test 10 · ★★★ · I was wrong: changing your mind
Your little brother still won't sleep after your monster joke. What helps most?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother, your · What happens: not sleep, joke, help
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 35 «I was wrong: changing your mind» of the myths 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 little brother still won't sleep after your monster joke.
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 | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sleep | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 joke | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 joke | nmod:poss |
| 10 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 joke | compound |
| 11 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | future | Your little brother | after your monster joke; still | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | joke | your | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 helps most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 helps | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Own up and check under the bed with a torch together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Own | own | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Own | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 check | cc |
| 4 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Own | conj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bed | det |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 check | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 torch | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 torch | det |
| 10 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 check | obl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 check | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | imperative | you not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | check | infinitive | you not said here | the bed | with a torch; together property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Tell Mum he's being silly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 silly | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 silly | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 silly | cop |
| 6 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | he | silly property | tree rules |
Option 3
Laugh and say he's a baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 say | cc |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Laugh | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 baby | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 baby | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 baby | det |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | he | a baby | tree rules |
Option 4
Tell him a different scary story
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a different scary story | him = he | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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