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Test 7 · ★★ · Bets, dares and silly reasons

Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam. Really fast-looking." What is being teased?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: race, win, look, tease · To what, where: friend, Lovely shoes

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 169 «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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: Racing friend, after winning: "Lovely shoes though, Sam.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Racing	race	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 Sam	advcl
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Racing	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 winning	punct
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 winning	mark
5	winning	win	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Racing	conj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 shoes	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 shoes	punct
8	Lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoes	amod
9	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 winning	obj
10	though	though	ADV	_	5 winning	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Racing	punct
12	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Sam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	gerund		friend					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Agent
2	win	gerund		Lovely shoes				though property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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: Really fast-looking."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Really	really	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looking	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fast	punct
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What is being teased?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 teased	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 teased	aux:pass
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 teased	aux:pass
4	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 teased	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present · passive							vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The shop that sold the shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shop	det
2	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shoes	det
6	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	the shop	the shoes					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 2

Sam for being slow on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 slow	case
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	Sam			purpose		slow property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The idea that new shoes make you fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 make	mark
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 idea	acl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	new shoes	you				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material you=Product

Option 4

Sam's taste in shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 taste	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sam	case
3	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste		Sam			shoes			nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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