Test 6 · Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong
Kwame shouts, "I ain't salty!" and kicks the sofa. What would happen if he named the feeling instead?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kwame · What happens: shout, not be, kick, happen, name · To what, where: sofa, feeling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 97 «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» 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: Kwame shouts, "I ain't salty!" and kicks the sofa.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kwame | Kwame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shouts | nsubj |
| 2 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 salty | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 salty | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 salty | nsubj |
| 6 | ai | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 salty | cop |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 salty | advmod |
| 8 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 shouts | ccomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 salty | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 salty | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kicks | cc |
| 12 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shouts | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sofa | det |
| 14 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kicks | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Kwame | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Kwame | salty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kick | present | Kwame not said here | the sofa | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent sofa=Patient |
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 would happen if he named the feeling instead?
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 named | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 named | nsubj |
| 6 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feeling | det |
| 8 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 named | obj |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 6 named | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | 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 | name a condition, not said to happen | past | Kwame | the feeling | instead property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Nothing; feelings don't change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 feelings | compound |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 change | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 change | advmod |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not change | present · do-support | Nothing feelings | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
His friend would laugh at him for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 laugh | aux |
| 4 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laugh | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 laugh | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | would | His friend | at him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It would make him much angrier
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 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 angrier | advmod |
| 6 | angrier | angry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | It | him = he | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It would likely help him calm down
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 | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 4 help | advmod |
| 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 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 calm | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | It | him = he | likely property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | calm down | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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