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Test 11 · ★★ · Fights, racism and being a bystander

Jacob's mate says, "it was only a laugh, why you crying?" What's the real issue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you, real issue · What happens: say, be, cry · To what, where: laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Fights, racism and being a bystander» 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: Jacob's mate says, "it was only a laugh, why you crying?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jacob	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laugh	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laugh	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 laugh	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 laugh	det
11	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 crying	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 crying	nsubj
15	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 laugh	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Jacob's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	mate	a laugh					tree rules
3	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	you						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 the real issue?

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	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 issue	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 issue	amod
5	issue	issue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real issue						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Play-fights must always end in tears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fights	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Play	punct
3	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 end	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 end	advmod
6	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 tears	case
8	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	must	Play fights			tears		always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Jacob should have fought harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fought	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fought	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fought	aux
4	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fought	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	should · perfect	Jacob					hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Jacob can't take a joke at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	can	Jacob	a joke		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent joke=Theme at all=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He didn't stop when Jacob said stop

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	4 stop	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 said	advmod
6	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	advcl
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past · do-support	He						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Jacob						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	stop	infinitive	He not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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