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Tyler's mate says, "my dad would NEVER cry, real men don't." Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, dad, real men, that · What happens: say, not cry, not do, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 3 «Living with loss: keeping memories, and loss that isn't death» 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: Tyler's mate says, "my dad would NEVER cry, real men don't."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tyler	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	_	11 cry	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cry	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	aux
10	NEVER	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 cry	advmod
11	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 do	nsubj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cry	conj
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tyler's mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not cry speech: express in a quote	would	my dad						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not do in a quote	present	real men						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Is that right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, but men only cry when they are physically hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 cry	cc
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cry	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 cry	advmod
6	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hurt	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hurt	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux:pass
10	physically	physically	ADV	_	11 hurt	advmod
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	men						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	present · passive		men = man				physically property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Yes; crying is only for women and small children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 women	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 women	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 women	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 women	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 women	case
7	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 children	cc
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 women	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	crying					for women and small children	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No; grown men cry too, about things they loved long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 cry	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cry	nsubj
5	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 cry	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 things	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 things	case
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cry	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 things	acl:relcl
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 loved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	present	grown men					about things	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic
3	love	past	men = man	things not said here				long property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes; men stop being able to cry when they turn thirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stop	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 able	advcl
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 able	cop
6	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cry	mark
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 able	xcomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 turn	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turn	nsubj
11	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cry	advcl
12	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	men						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund						able property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	present	men = man	thirty					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thirty=Theme

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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