Test 3 · Moving house and renting a home
Mum snaps "Not now, love, I've got forty boxes and the van's at eight!" Why is she snappy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, I, van · What happens: snap, get, be · To what, where: forty boxes, eight · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 10 «Moving house and renting a home» 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: Mum snaps "Not now, love, I've got forty boxes and the van's at eight!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snaps | nsubj |
| 2 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 now | punct |
| 4 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 now | advmod |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 snaps | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 love | punct |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snaps | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 snaps | parataxis |
| 12 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 boxes | nummod |
| 13 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eight | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 van | det |
| 16 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eight | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 eight | cop |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 eight | case |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 boxes | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 snaps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present | Mum | now | love vocative | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | forty boxes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the van | eight | 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: Why is she snappy?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 snappy | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 snappy | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 snappy | nsubj |
| 4 | snappy | snappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 snappy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mum | snappy property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She does not want to move at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 move | mark |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | She | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Moving is very stressful, and it calms down after
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stressful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stressful | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 stressful | advmod |
| 4 | stressful | stressful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 calms | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 calms | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 calms | nsubj |
| 8 | calms | calm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stressful | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 calms | compound:prt |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 calms | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | stressful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | calm down | present | it | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
She is angry with you for something you did last week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | cop |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 angry | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 angry | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 week | amod |
| 11 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | with you; for something; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | you | week | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Snapping is required when moving house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snapping | snapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 required | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 required | aux:pass |
| 3 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 moving | advmod |
| 5 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 required | xcomp |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moving | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | present · passive | Snapping | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move | gerund | house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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