Test 4 · ★★ · When nobody sits with you: making friends again
A kid asks Mia, "wait, you don't do Christmas? that's so weird." What's a good response?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, Mia, that, good response · What happens: ask, wait, not do, be · To what, where: Mia, Christmas · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 23 «When nobody sits with you: making friends again» 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: A kid asks Mia, "wait, you don't do Christmas? that's so weird."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 asks | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 13 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 weird | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 weird | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 weird | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 weird | advmod |
| 18 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wait | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a kid | Mia | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent mia=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | present · do-support | Mia | Christmas | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that | weird 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 a good response?
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 response | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 response | amod |
| 5 | response | response | 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 | a good response | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Agree it's weird and pretend to do Christmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 weird | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weird | cop |
| 4 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Agree | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pretend | cc |
| 6 | pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weird | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pretend | xcomp |
| 9 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | imperative | you not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | it | weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Christmas | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent christmas=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Tell him about Eid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 Eid | case |
| 4 | Eid | Eid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | him = he | about Eid | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about eid=Topic |
Option 3
Walk off and never talk about it again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Walk | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 talk | cc |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 talk | advmod |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Walk | conj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talk | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 talk | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | imperative | you not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not talk | infinitive | you not said here | again | about it | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
Option 4
Say his festivals are weird instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 festivals | nmod:poss |
| 3 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weird | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weird | cop |
| 5 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Say | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | instead property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | his festivals | weird property | tree rules |
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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