Test 5 · ★ · Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice
Your friend jokes, "Your project's trash," you look hurt, and he says, "Just joking!" What does Proverbs 26:18-19 warn about?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, you, Your, Proverbs · What happens: joke, look, hurt, say, project, warn · To what, where: trash · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Your friend jokes, "Your project's trash," you look hurt, and he says, "Just joking!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jokes | nsubj |
| 3 | jokes | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 jokes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 trash | punct |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 project | nmod:poss |
| 7 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trash | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 project | case |
| 9 | trash | trash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jokes | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 look | nsubj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jokes | conj |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 look | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 says | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jokes | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 joking | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 joking | punct |
| 21 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 22 joking | advmod |
| 22 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 says | ccomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 joking | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 joking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | present | Your friend | Your project's trash | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hurt | participle | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | present | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | joke speech: other in a quote | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | project in a quote | Your | nom project «act 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 does Proverbs 26:18-19 warn about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 warn | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warn | aux |
| 3 | Proverbs | Proverb | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 warn | nsubj |
| 4 | 26:18-19 | 26:18-19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Proverbs | flat |
| 5 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 warn | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 warn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present · do-support | Proverbs | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
Laughing too loudly in class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 loudly | advmod |
| 3 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 1 Laughing | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 class | case |
| 5 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Laughing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | in class; loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in class=Theme |
Option 2
Never telling any jokes at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 telling | advmod |
| 2 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 jokes | det |
| 4 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 telling | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 telling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | gerund | any jokes | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Telling jokes that are much too long and boring for anyone to laugh at
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 long | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 jokes | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 boring | cc |
| 9 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 long | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Telling | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 laugh | mark |
| 13 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Telling | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 laugh | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | jokes | for anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Hurting someone and then hiding behind "I was only joking"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurting | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hiding | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Hurting | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hiding | cc |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hiding | advmod |
| 5 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 joking | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 joking | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 joking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 joking | aux |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 joking | advmod |
| 11 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hiding | advcl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hiding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | gerund | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hide behind | gerund | Hurting | then | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | joke speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | I | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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