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Test 10 · "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason

Freddie: "Mum, if all the mums at the gate signed their kids up for ballet, would I have to do ballet?" Mum: "...Don't tempt me." What is Freddie showing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mums, I, you, Freddie · What happens: sign up, have, do, not tempt, show · To what, where: kids, ballet, me

This is test 10 of lesson 166 «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» of the world 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: Freddie: "Mum, if all the mums at the gate signed their kids up for ballet, would I have to do ballet?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 have	vocative
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Mum	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freddie	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 signed	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 signed	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 mums	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mums	det
9	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 signed	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mums	nmod
13	signed	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Mum	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 kids	nmod:poss
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 signed	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	13 signed	compound:prt
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 ballet	case
18	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 signed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Freddie	punct
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 do	mark
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 have	xcomp
25	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sign up a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	all mums at the gate	their kids				for ballet	vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent kid=Pivot for ballet=Beneficiary
2	have in a quote	would	I					Freddie vocative	tree rules
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	ballet					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ballet=Eventuality

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: Mum: "...

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct
4	...	...	PUNCT	_	1 Mum	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: Don't tempt me."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tempt	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 tempt	advmod
3	tempt	tempt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tempt	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tempt	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tempt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tempt	imperative · do-support	you not said here		me				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

Sentence 4: What is Freddie showing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 showing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 showing	aux
3	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 showing	nsubj
4	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 showing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · progressive	Freddie						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

Ballet is better than football

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 football	case
5	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ballet					than football; good property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

All mums secretly like ballet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mums	det
2	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 mums	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 ballet	case
5	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mums	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Choosing a club because others do is not a good reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 reason	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 club	det
3	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choosing	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
5	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Choosing	advcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 reason	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 reason	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 reason	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reason	amod
11	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	gerund		a club					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
2	do	present	others						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is a	present	Choosing	a good reason					tree rules

Option 4

Freddie secretly wants to do ballet instead of football or drawing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
2	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 wants	advmod
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
6	ballet	ballet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 football	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 drawing	cc
11	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 football	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Freddie					secretly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	Freddie not said here	ballet				instead football or drawing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ballet=Eventuality

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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