Test 8 · ★★ · Bets, dares and silly reasons

Mia: "Your brother's not Google, Ava." What would be a better way to settle the goldfish bet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother · What happens: not be, be, settle · To what, where: Google, better way, goldfish bet

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Mia: "Your brother's not Google, Ava."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Google	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Google	punct
4	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Google	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Google	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Google	advmod
8	Google	Google	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mia	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ava	punct
10	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Google	appos
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Ava	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Ava	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	Your brother	Google					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 would be a better way to settle the goldfish bet?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 way	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 way	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 settle	mark
8	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bet	det
10	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bet	compound
11	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 settle	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would		a better way					tree rules
2	settle	to-infinitive		the goldfish bet					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bet=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Guess an answer and see who can shout it the loudest and longest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Guess	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shout	cc
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shout	aux
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 shout	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 shout	aux
8	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Guess	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shout	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loudest	det
11	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 shout	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 longest	cc
13	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 loudest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	imperative	you not said here	a answer					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	shout speech: express	can · infinitive		answer					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Ask her brother again more loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 loudly	advmod
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		her brother		again	loudly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Look it up with a good source, like the teacher did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 source	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 source	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 source	amod
7	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 did	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	imperative	you not said here	it				with a good source	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
2	do	past	the teacher						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Watch a cartoon about fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watch	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 fish	case
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cartoon	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	imperative	you not said here	a cartoon				about fish	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme

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