Test 2 · ★★ · When it was my fault: owning up and making it right
What would happen if Dylan told the band teacher a week early, "I'm scared of the stage"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dylan · What happens: happen, tell, be · To what, where: band teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 5 «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 5 | Dylan | Dylan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teacher | det |
| 8 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teacher | compound |
| 9 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 week | det |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 told | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 scared | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scared | cop |
| 17 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 happen | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stage | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stage | det |
| 20 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scared | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 scared | punct |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past | Dylan | the band teacher | week | early property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Dylan | of the stage; scared 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The teacher could help him or fill the gap in time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 fill | cc |
| 7 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gap | det |
| 9 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fill | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fill | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | the teacher | him = he | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | fill | infinitive | the teacher not said here | the gap | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient |
Option 2
Nobody would ever trust him with music again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trust | aux |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 trust | advmod |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 music | case |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trust | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 trust | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | would | Nobody | him = he | ever; again | with music | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with music=Theme |
Option 3
It would make his stage fright much worse forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fright | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fright | compound |
| 6 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 worse | advmod |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 make | xcomp |
| 9 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | It | his stage fright | bad, forever property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material fright=Product | |||
| 2 | fright | his = he | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
He'd be thrown out of school for being scared
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 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thrown | aux:pass |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 scared | case |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 scared | cop |
| 10 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | would · passive | He | school | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme out school=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | scared 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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