Test 7 · ★ · Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside
"Proper job, I'm well over it," says Jago, then cries at night. What would help more than pretending?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jago · What happens: be, say, cry, help, pretend · To what, where: Proper job, job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 98 «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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: "Proper job, I'm well over it," says Jago, then cries at night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 job | punct |
| 2 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 job | amod |
| 3 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 it | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 it | nsubj |
| 6 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 it | advmod |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 job | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 job | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jago | Jago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 says | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cries | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 cries | advmod |
| 16 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cries | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Jago | Proper job not said here | job | well property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Jago | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | Jago not said here | then; night | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 would help more than pretending?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 pretending | mark |
| 6 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 more | advcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Never mentioning his friend again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 mentioning | advmod |
| 2 | mentioning | mention | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mentioning | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 mentioning | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | gerund | his friend | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Telling someone he trusts that he's sad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 trusts | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Telling | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trusts | nsubj |
| 4 | trusts | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sad | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sad | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sad | cop |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trusts | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | trust | present | he | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | he | sad property | tree rules |
Option 3
Pretending his friend never existed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 existed | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pretending | obj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 existed | advmod |
| 5 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | his friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not exist | past | Pretending | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Telling everyone he's never been happier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happier | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 happier | cop |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 happier | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 happier | cop |
| 7 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Telling | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | he | happy property | tree rules |
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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