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Test 11 · A day at a grown-up's job

Dad: "Meeting ran over AGAIN, now I've got the actual work to do tonight." Why does he have to work tonight?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad Meeting, I, Meeting · What happens: run over, get, do, have, work · To what, where: actual work

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «A day at a grown-up's job» of the adult life 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: Dad: "Meeting ran over AGAIN, now I've got the actual work to do tonight."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Meeting	compound
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct
4	Meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
7	AGAIN	again	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 got	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 ran	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 work	det
14	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 work	amod
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 got	advcl
18	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run over in a quote	past	Dad Meeting				again	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	I	the actual work			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here				tonight		vn act-114-1 «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: Why does he have to work tonight?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl:unmarked
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	Meeting						tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	Meeting not said here				tonight		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

His boss wants him to do all his work at night from now on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 boss	nmod:poss
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wants	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 work	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 now	case
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 do	advmod
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 now	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	His boss	him = he					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here	boss's work			night		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	work		boss						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He forgot to go to the meeting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 meeting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meeting	det
7	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	He						tree rules
2	not go	to-infinitive	He not said here			the meeting			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The long meeting ate the time for his real work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meeting	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meeting	amod
3	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 work	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 work	nmod:poss
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the long meeting				time	for meeting's real work	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work		meeting						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Meetings always happen in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meetings	meeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Meetings				evening	always property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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