Test 4 · ★★★ · Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back
Max says, "I didn't think a coach would care." What's true about trusted adults?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, coach · What happens: say, not think, care, be, trust · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Getting through it: who helps, what helps, and looking back» 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: Max says, "I didn't think a coach would care."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coach | det |
| 10 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 care | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 care | aux |
| 12 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Max | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | Max | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | care in a quote | would | a coach | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 true about trusted adults?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 adults | case |
| 5 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 adults | amod |
| 6 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about trusted adults; true property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Only parents are ever trusted adults
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 trusted | advmod |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trusted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trusted | aux:pass |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 trusted | advmod |
| 5 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 adults | amod |
| 6 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present · passive | parents | ever | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Coaches are not allowed to talk about feelings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 talk | mark |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 feelings | case |
| 8 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 talk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Coaches | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | Coaches not said here | about feelings | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about feeling=Topic |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Coaches, teachers and nurses can be trusted adults too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 adults | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 teachers | punct |
| 3 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Coaches | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nurses | cc |
| 5 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Coaches | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 adults | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 adults | cop |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 adults | amod |
| 9 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 adults | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | can | Coaches and teachers and nurses | trusted adults | tree rules |
Option 4
Children should only ever talk to friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 talk | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 talk | advmod |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 talk | advmod |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | should | Children | ever | to friends | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to friend=Co-Agent |
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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