Test 9 · Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong
Josh laughs, "Peter was just unlucky." What did Peter really learn?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Josh, Peter · What happens: laugh, be, learn · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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: Josh laughs, "Peter was just unlucky."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unlucky | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 unlucky | punct |
| 5 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 unlucky | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unlucky | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 unlucky | advmod |
| 8 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 laughs | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unlucky | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Josh | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Peter | unlucky 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.
Sentence 2: What did Peter really learn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 learn | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | aux |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 learn | advmod |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past · do-support | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Nothing; he kept boasting afterwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kept | xcomp |
| 6 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 boasting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | Nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | gerund | Nothing not said here | afterwards property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
That he should never have followed Jesus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 followed | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 followed | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 followed | aux |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not follow | should · perfect · passive | That | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme jesus=Attribute |
Option 3
That roosters are bad luck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 roosters | det |
| 2 | roosters | rooster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 luck | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 luck | cop |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 luck | amod |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that roosters | bad luck | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He wasn't as strong as he boasted; afterwards he was humble and was restored
The tree, 15 words
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 | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 strong | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 strong | advmod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 boasted | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 boasted | nsubj |
| 8 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | advcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 humble | punct |
| 10 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 humble | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 humble | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 humble | cop |
| 13 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strong | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 restored | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 restored | aux:pass |
| 16 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 humble | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | He | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | past | he | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | he | afterwards, humble property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | restore | past · passive | he not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» |
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