Test 4 · ★★ · Fights, racism and being a bystander

Oscar's classmate goes, "dyslexic kids are lowkey slow, no offence." What is the true reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: classmate, dyslexic kids, true reply · What happens: go, be

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Oscar's classmate goes, "dyslexic kids are lowkey slow, no offence."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 classmate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Oscar	case
3	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slow	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 slow	punct
7	dyslexic	dyslexic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kids	amod
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 slow	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 slow	cop
10	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	11 slow	advmod
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 offence	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 offence	det
14	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slow	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Oscar's classmate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	dyslexic kids					lowkey, slow 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 is the true reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	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 true reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dyslexia is about reading, not cleverness; many brilliant people have it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dyslexia	dyslexia	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	cop
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 reading	case
4	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cleverness	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 cleverness	advmod
7	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
10	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dyslexia					about reading and cleverness	tree rules
2	have	present	many brilliant people	Dyslexia					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

It's fine to say because he said no offence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	csubj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 said	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 offence	det
10	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	he	no offence		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent offence=Topic

Option 3

He's right; dyslexia means you are slow at everything, not just at reading

The tree, 14 words

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	_	6 means	punct
5	dyslexia	dyslexia	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 slow	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 slow	cop
9	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 everything	case
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 slow	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 reading	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 reading	advmod
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 reading	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 reading	case
16	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	mean	present	dyslexia			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you	everything	slow property	tree rules

Option 4

Dyslexia is just an excuse for not reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dyslexia	dyslexia	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 excuse	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 excuse	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 excuse	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 excuse	det
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 reading	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 reading	advmod
8	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 excuse	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dyslexia	a excuse					tree rules
2	not read	gerund	Dyslexia not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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