Test 11 · ★ · Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up

Lily's big brother says, "cartoons are for babies, it's giving toddler." ("It's giving" means it seems like.) What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big brother, cartoons, it, toddler, giving · What happens: say, be, give, mean, seem · To what, where: toddler · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 19 «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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: Lily's big brother says, "cartoons are for babies, it's giving toddler."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lily	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 babies	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 babies	punct
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 babies	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 babies	cop
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 babies	case
11	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 giving	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 giving	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 giving	aux
15	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 says	ccomp
16	toddler	toddler	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 giving	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 giving	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 giving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Lily's big brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	cartoons		for babies	tree rules
3	give in a quote	present · progressive	it	toddler		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toddler=Theme

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: ("It's giving" means it seems like.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 giving	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 giving	aux
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 means	csubj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 giving	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seems	nsubj
9	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	ccomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 seems	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	give in a quote	present · progressive	toddler	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	mean	present	giving	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem	present	it	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He's right; cartoons are only for very small kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	_	11 kids	punct
5	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kids	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kids	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	11 kids	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 kids	case
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 small	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kids	amod
11	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	cartoons					for small kids	tree rules

Option 2

She should hide it carefully so that nobody at school ever finds out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hide	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	aux
3	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hide	obj
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 hide	advmod
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 finds	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 finds	nsubj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nobody	nmod
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 finds	advmod
12	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 finds	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	should	She	it				carefully property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	find out	present	nobody				ever		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Liking cartoons is fine; people like different things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liking	like	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fine	csubj
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Liking	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 people	punct
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 things	case
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	gerund		cartoons					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cartoon=Theme
2	is	present	Liking					people like different things obl; fine property	tree rules

Option 4

Grown-ups never ever watch any cartoons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watch	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 watch	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 watch	advmod
6	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 cartoons	det
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not watch	infinitive	Grown ups	any cartoons			ever		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme

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