Test 2 · ★ · Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean
Jess thinks: "If I tell the truth now, Miss will hate me forever." What usually happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jess, Miss · What happens: think, tell, hate, happen · To what, where: truth, Jess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 16 «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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: Jess thinks: "If I tell the truth now, Miss will hate me forever."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jess | Jess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 tell | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hate | punct |
| 12 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hate | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hate | aux |
| 14 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hate | obj |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 14 hate | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Jess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Jess | the truth | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hate in a quote | future | Miss | Jess | forever property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 usually happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | usually property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Teachers mostly respect someone who comes back and owns up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 respect | nsubj |
| 2 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 3 respect | advmod |
| 3 | respect | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 respect | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 owns | cc |
| 9 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 comes | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 owns | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respect | present | Teachers | someone | mostly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come back | present | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | own up | present | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
Option 2
The teacher will not remember who said what anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember | future | the teacher | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | anyway property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
Option 3
The teacher will punish her twice as hard as the other girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 punish | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 punish | aux |
| 4 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punish | obj |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 hard | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 hard | advmod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 punish | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 girl | amod |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hard | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | future | the teacher | her = she | hard property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 4
Owning up late is worse than never owning up at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 worse | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Owning | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 owning | mark |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 owning | advmod |
| 8 | owning | own | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 worse | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 owning | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 owning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | gerund | late property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Owning | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not own up | gerund | Owning not said here | all | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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