Test 9 · ★ · Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean
Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man. What helped him more?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Archie · What happens: avoid, mouth off, help · To what, where: park, Archie
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Archie avoids the park for weeks after mouthing off to the man.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archie | Archie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 avoids | nsubj |
| 2 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 park | det |
| 4 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 avoids | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 avoids | obl |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 mouthing | mark |
| 8 | mouthing | mouth | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 avoids | advcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 mouthing | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouthing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 avoids | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | present | Archie | the park | week | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent park=Location | |||
| 2 | mouth off | gerund | Archie not said here | to the man | 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: What helped him more?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 helped | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 helped | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Archie | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
Never thinking about the park again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 park | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 park | det |
| 5 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinking | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 thinking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | gerund | again | about the park | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about park=Topic |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Telling everyone at school that the man had been really rude to him first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 school | case |
| 4 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 rude | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rude | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rude | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 rude | cop |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 rude | advmod |
| 11 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Telling | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rude | obl |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Telling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | everyone | school | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the man | him = he | rude property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Going back, picking up litter and saying sorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Going | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 picking | punct |
| 4 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Going | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picking | compound:prt |
| 6 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picking | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saying | cc |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Going | conj |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saying | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | gerund | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | litter | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent litter=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: apologize | gerund | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Finding a new park far away to play in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 park | det |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 park | amod |
| 4 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finding | obj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Finding | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Finding | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 play | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | a new park | away property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent park=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play in | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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