Test 7 · ★★ · Arguing politely and never calling names
Dylan is about to swear back at a stranger online. What would be wiser?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dylan · What happens: be, swear back · To what, where: stranger
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 39 «Arguing politely and never calling names» of the politics 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: Dylan is about to swear back at a stranger online.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dylan | Dylan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 about | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 swear | mark |
| 5 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 swear | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 stranger | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swear | obl |
| 10 | online | online | ADV | _ | 5 swear | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dylan | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear back | to-infinitive | Dylan not said here | a stranger | online property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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 would be wiser?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 wiser | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wiser | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wiser | cop |
| 4 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wiser | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | wise property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Find the stranger's school and post about them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stranger | det |
| 3 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 school | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 stranger | case |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Find | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 post | cc |
| 7 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 school | conj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 post | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | the stranger's school and post about school | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Topic |
Option 2
Make a fake account to annoy them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 account | det |
| 3 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 account | amod |
| 4 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 annoy | mark |
| 6 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 annoy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | a fake account | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | annoy | to-infinitive | a fake account not said here | them = they | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
Option 3
Swear in every comment they make
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 comment | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 comment | det |
| 4 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swear | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comment | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | imperative | you not said here | every comment | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | they | every comment not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comment=Product |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Leave it, block if needed, and tell a grown-up if it gets nasty
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 block | punct |
| 4 | block | block | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 needed | mark |
| 6 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 block | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Leave | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 grown | det |
| 11 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grown | compound |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 gets | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gets | nsubj |
| 16 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | advcl |
| 17 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | block | infinitive | you not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 3 | need a condition, not said to happen | participle | you not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | a grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | grown | nasty property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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