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Test 3 · ★ · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel

Ella's older sister: "Laugh at the idea, not the person. Calves drink milk; grown-up cows drink water. Now she knows." What did the sister do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Calves, grown cows, person, sister · What happens: laugh, drink, grow up, know, do · To what, where: idea, milk, water

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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: Ella's older sister: "Laugh at the idea, not the person.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ella	case
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Laugh	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Laugh	punct
7	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 sister	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 idea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 idea	det
10	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Laugh	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 person	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 person	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 idea	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	infinitive				the idea and the person			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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: Calves drink milk; grown-up cows drink water.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 drink	punct
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cows	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drink	nsubj
9	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drink	parataxis
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drink	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present	Calves	milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drink	present	grown cows	water					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Sentence 3: Now she knows."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 knows	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	person				now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Sentence 4: What did the sister do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sister	det
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the sister						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Turned mocking into helping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Turned	xcomp
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 helping	case
4	helping	helping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mocking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past							tree rules
2	mock	gerund				helping			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Mocked the friend even harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mocked	obj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 harder	advmod
5	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Mocked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past		the friend				hard property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme

Option 3

Told Ella never to laugh again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	Ella	Ella	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Told	iobj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 laugh	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 laugh	mark
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Told	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 laugh	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle			Ella				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ella=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not laugh not said to happen	to-infinitive					again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Agreed that cows drink milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cows	amod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cows	det
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drink	nsubj
4	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	participle							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	present	that Agreed cows	milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient

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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