Test 3 · ★ · Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice

A cartoon shows a coach yelling at a runner on the starting line: "Your form is terrible!" What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, coach, form, Your · What happens: show, yell, be, form · To what, where: coach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 84 «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows a coach yelling at a runner on the starting line: "Your form is terrible!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coach	det
5	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 coach	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 runner	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 runner	det
9	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 line	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 line	det
12	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 line	compound
13	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 terrible	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 terrible	punct
16	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 form	nmod:poss
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 terrible	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 terrible	cop
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shows	parataxis
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 terrible	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a coach		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent coach=Recipient clause=Topic
2	yell speech: express	gerund	a coach not said here		on the starting line; at a runner	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at runner=Stimulus
3	is in a quote	present	Your form		terrible property	tree rules
4	form in a quote		Your			nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Nothing; that is the perfect time for criticism, when the runner is listening hardest

The tree, 14 words

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	_	7 time	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 time	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 time	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 criticism	case
9	criticism	criticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 listening	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 listening	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 runner	det
13	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 listening	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 listening	aux
15	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 time	appos
16	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 listening	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the perfect time				for criticism	tree rules
2	listen	present · progressive	the runner						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The runner should yell back at the coach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 runner	det
2	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yell	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 yell	aux
4	yell	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 yell	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 coach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coach	det
8	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 yell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell back speech: express	should	the runner					at the coach	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at coach=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Criticism helps in practice, not at the starting line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Criticism	criticism	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 practice	case
4	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 line	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 line	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
9	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 line	compound
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Criticism			practice		at the starting line	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Coaches should never say anything about form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coaches	coach	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 say	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 say	advmod
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 form	case
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	should	Coaches	anything				about form	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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