Test 9 · ★ · Animals

"shut up about the frogs, we want the bloody skate park" — what is this speaker ignoring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, we, speaker · What happens: shut up, want, ignore · To what, where: bloody skate park

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 46 «Animals» of the religion ethics 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 frogs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 frogs	det
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shut	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 park	det
11	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 park	amod
12	skate	skate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 park	compound
13	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 want	obj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
15	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 ignoring	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 ignoring	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 ignoring	aux
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 speaker	det
19	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ignoring	nsubj
20	ignoring	ignore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shut	advcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here		about the frogs	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want in a quote	present	we	the bloody skate park		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot park=Theme
3	ignore	present · progressive	this speaker			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The rules of skateboarding at the park

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rules	det
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 skateboarding	case
4	skateboarding	skateboarding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rules	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 park	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 park	det
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skateboarding	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule		skateboarding at the park						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

Nothing, because they are just in a bad mood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mood	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 mood	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mood	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 mood	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 mood	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 mood	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mood	det
9	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mood	amod
10	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			a bad mood			tree rules

Option 3

The cost of the skate ramps, the fences and the paint for the new park

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cost	det
2	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 ramps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ramps	det
5	skate	skate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ramps	compound
6	ramps	ramp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fences	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fences	det
9	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ramps	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 paint	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 paint	det
12	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ramps	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 park	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 park	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 park	amod
16	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paint	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost			the skate ramps and the fences and the paint for the new park					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The animals' needs and the chance of a fair solution for both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 needs	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 animals	case
4	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chance	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chance	det
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needs	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 solution	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 solution	det
10	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 solution	amod
11	solution	solution	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chance	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 both	case
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 solution	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need		the animals						nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent
2	chance		a fair solution for both						nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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