Test 9 · ★★★ · Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight
Isla's cousin says, "it's just a baby pic, chill." Isla's furious. Who's right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: say, be · To what, where: baby pic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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: Isla's cousin says, "it's just a baby pic, chill."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Isla | case |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pic | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pic | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pic | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 pic | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pic | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pic | compound |
| 12 | pic | pic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chill | punct |
| 14 | chill | chill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pic | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pic | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pic | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Isla's cousin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cousin | a baby pic and chill | 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: Isla's furious.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 furious | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Isla | case |
| 3 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 furious | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: Who's right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Isla; such photos must never be shared, so tell an adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shared | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Isla | punct |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 photos | amod |
| 4 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shared | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 shared | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shared | aux:pass |
| 8 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 shared | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 adult | det |
| 13 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not share | must · passive | Isla | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Neither; nobody can stop photos being shared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 stop | advmod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shared | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 shared | aux:pass |
| 8 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | can | nobody | neither property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | share | gerund · passive | photos | tree rules |
Option 3
Her cousin; she should chill and laugh along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chill | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 cousin | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chill | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 chill | aux |
| 6 | chill | chill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 laugh | cc |
| 8 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chill | conj |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 laugh | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chill | should | Her cousin | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | laugh | infinitive | Her cousin not said here | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Her cousin; baby photos don't count at all, whoever is in them
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 count | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 count | punct |
| 4 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 photos | compound |
| 5 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 count | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 count | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 count | advmod |
| 8 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 count | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whoever | punct |
| 12 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 count | advcl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 them | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 whoever | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | present · do-support | Her cousin | all | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | in photos = photo | tree rules |
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