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Test 7 · ★★ · Reading people in hard times: what's really behind the mea…

Holly's mate goes, "Kira's mum is ill, so let her be mean, it's fine." What's the better balance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, mum, better balance · What happens: go, be, let · To what, where: mate

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Holly's mate goes, "Kira's mum is ill, so let her be mean, it's fine."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holly	Holly	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Holly	case
3	mate	mate	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 ill	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 ill	punct
7	Kira	Kira	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mum	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Kira	case
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ill	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ill	cop
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 goes	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 let	advmod
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 mean	cop
17	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fine	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fine	expl
20	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fine	cop
21	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 let	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Holly's mate						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Kira's mum					ill property	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive		mate					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	is in a quote	infinitive	mate not said here					mean property	tree rules
5	is in a quote	present						fine 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 the better balance?

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 balance	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 balance	amod
5	balance	balance	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 better balance						tree rules

The options

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

Be kind to Kira, but still tell her to stop being mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Kira	case
4	Kira	Kira	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kind	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	parataxis
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 mean	cop
13	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here		Kira			kind property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			Kira		still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is	gerund						mean property	tree rules

Option 2

Be mean back so Kira learns her lesson

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 mean	cop
2	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 back	csubj
3	back	back	ADV	_	6 learns	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 learns	mark
5	Kira	Kira	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 learns	nsubj
6	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lesson	nmod:poss
8	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						mean property	tree rules
2	learn	present	Kira	Kira's lesson					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic

Option 3

Tell everyone so they all avoid Kira

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Tell	iobj
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 avoid	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoid	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 avoid	advmod
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
7	Kira	Kira	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		everyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
2	avoid	present	they	Kira					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent kira=Location

Option 4

Let Kira be mean because she's sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Kira	Kira	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 mean	cop
4	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	xcomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sad	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sad	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Kira					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kira=Theme
2	is	infinitive	Kira not said here					mean property	tree rules
3	is	present	Kira					sad 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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