Test 1 · ★★ · Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mea…

Kyle's brother goes, "Dev's being a right muppet, just ghost him." ("Ghost" means stop talking to someone without saying why.) What's the wiser view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, Dev, Ghost, wiser view · What happens: go, be, mean, stop, talk, say · To what, where: right muppet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mean face» 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: Kyle's brother goes, "Dev's being a right muppet, just ghost him."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kyle	case
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 muppet	punct
7	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 muppet	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 muppet	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 muppet	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 muppet	det
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 muppet	amod
12	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ghost	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 ghost	advmod
15	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 muppet	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ghost	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Kyle's brother						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present	Dev	a right muppet and ghost					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: ("Ghost" means stop talking to someone without saying why.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ghost	punct
3	Ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Ghost	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
7	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 talking	obl
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 saying	mark
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 talking	advcl
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saying	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Ghost		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund		to someone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What's the wiser view?

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 view	det
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 view	amod
5	view	view	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 wiser view						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

His brother is right; ghosting fixes everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 ghosting	punct
6	ghosting	ghost	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 right	advcl
7	fixes	fix	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ghosting	obj
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 ghosting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	His brother					right property	tree rules
2	ghost	gerund	His brother not said here	fixes					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Something hard may be going on; stay around and be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 going	nsubj
2	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Something	amod
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	parataxis
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 stay	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kind	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 kind	cop
12	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go on	may · progressive	Something		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay around	infinitive		around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive		kind property	tree rules

Option 3

Kyle should demand Dev says sorry first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 demand	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 demand	aux
3	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 demand	ccomp
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	xcomp
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 demand	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	should	Kyle					first property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	say speech: apologize	present	Dev					sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Kyle should snap at Dev even harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kyle	Kyle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 snap	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 snap	aux
3	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Dev	case
5	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 snap	obl
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 harder	advmod
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 snap	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	should	Kyle			Dev			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dev=Location

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