Test 5 · ★ · Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go
In a film, a kid cheats to win a gold medal and is happy ever after. What's off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid · What happens: cheat, win, be · To what, where: film, gold medal
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 17 «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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: In a film, a kid cheats to win a gold medal and is happy ever after.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cheats | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cheats | nsubj |
| 7 | cheats | cheat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 win | mark |
| 9 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cheats | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 medal | det |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 medal | compound |
| 12 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 win | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happy | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 happy | cop |
| 15 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheats | conj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 after | advmod |
| 17 | after | after | ADV | _ | 15 happy | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cheats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheat | present | a kid | a film | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | a kid not said here | a gold medal | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medal=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a kid not said here | after, happy property | 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's off?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 off | cop |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 What | compound:prt |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Real cheaters always get caught on the same day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cheaters | amod |
| 2 | cheaters | cheater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 caught | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · passive | Real cheaters | day | always property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Medals only count if you win them by cheating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medals | medal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 count | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 count | advmod |
| 3 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 win | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 win | nsubj |
| 6 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 count | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 win | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 cheating | case |
| 9 | cheating | cheating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 win | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Medals | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | win a condition, not said to happen | present | you | Medals = medal | by cheating | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Many cheaters feel the win is fake and can't enjoy it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cheaters | amod |
| 2 | cheaters | cheater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 win | det |
| 5 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fake | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fake | cop |
| 7 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 enjoy | cc |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 enjoy | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 enjoy | advmod |
| 11 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feel | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 enjoy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Many cheaters | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the win | fake property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not enjoy | can | Many cheaters not said here | win | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nothing is off; winning by cheating makes a gold medal feel extra good
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 off | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 off | cop |
| 3 | off | off | ADV | _ | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 off | punct |
| 5 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 makes | csubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 cheating | case |
| 7 | cheating | cheating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winning | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 medal | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 medal | compound |
| 11 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 good | amod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | gerund | by cheating | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | a gold medal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | a gold medal not said here | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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