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Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★

A week after his wife died, Mr Dunn shouts at kids whose ball keeps hitting his fence. Which reading is kind AND fits the clues?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife, Mr, ball, reading · What happens: die, shout, keep, hit, be, fit · To what, where: week, fence, clues

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: reading hidden feelings in hard times ★★★» 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: A week after his wife died, Mr Dunn shouts at kids whose ball keeps hitting his fence.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouts	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 died	mark
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod:poss
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 week	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 week	punct
8	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 shouts	nsubj
9	Dunn	Dunn	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mr	flat
10	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 kids	case
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shouts	obl
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 ball	nmod:poss
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keeps	nsubj
15	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 kids	acl:relcl
16	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 keeps	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fence	nmod:poss
18	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hitting	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	his wife	a week not said here					tree rules
2	shout speech: express	present	Mr				week	at kids	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	ball						tree rules
4	hit	gerund	ball not said here	Mr's fence					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fence=Co-Theme

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: Which reading is kind AND fits the clues?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 reading	det
2	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	AND	and	CCONJ	_	6 fits	cc
6	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clues	det
8	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fits	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which reading					kind property	tree rules
2	fit	present	which reading not said here	the clues					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Grief may be in the shouting, though the ball still bothers him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouting	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 shouting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 shouting	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shouting	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shouting	det
6	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bothers	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 bothers	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bothers	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 bothers	advmod
12	bothers	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shouting	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bothers	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	Grief			the shouting			tree rules
2	bother	present	the ball	him = he			still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2

Shouting means he must be a dangerous man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 man	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	must	he	a dangerous man					tree rules

Option 3

He has always hated every child in the street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hated	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 hated	advmod
4	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present · perfect	He	every child		the street		always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is only pretending to be sad about his wife so that people feel sorry

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pretending	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 pretending	advmod
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 sad	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pretending	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 feel	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	nsubj
14	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	advcl
15	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	He						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	He not said here					about his wife; sad property	tree rules
3	feel	present	people					sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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