Test 6 · ★★★ · Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and bei…
Jade's mate says, "omg you wet the bed?? at NINE??" What's the true, kind answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you, true kind answer · What happens: say, wet, be · To what, where: bed, NINE · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 27 «Tricks the mind plays: inner voices, superstitions and being sure but wrong» 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: Jade's mate says, "omg you wet the bed?? at NINE??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jade | 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 | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 7 | omg | omg | INTJ | _ | 9 wet | discourse |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 wet | nsubj |
| 9 | wet | wet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bed | det |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wet | obj |
| 12 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 NINE | case |
| 14 | NINE | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 wet | obl |
| 15 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wet | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jade's mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wet in a quote | present | you | the bed | NINE | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
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 true, kind answer?
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 | 7 answer | det |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answer | amod |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the true kind answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It only happens to babies and is weird
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 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 happens | advmod |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 babies | case |
| 5 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 happens | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 weird | cc |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 weird | cop |
| 8 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 happens | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | It | to babies | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | weird property | tree rules |
Option 2
It means something is badly wrong with her
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 | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wrong | cop |
| 5 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 wrong | advmod |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wrong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | It | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | something | with her = she; badly, wrong property | tree rules |
Option 3
She should stay home from every sleepover
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 stay | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 stay | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sleepover | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sleepover | det |
| 7 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | should | She | every sleepover | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It's common and nothing to be ashamed of
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 common | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 common | cop |
| 3 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nothing | cc |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 common | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ashamed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ashamed | cop |
| 8 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nothing | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ashamed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | ashamed 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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