Test 5 · Moving house and renting a home
Your mate says "Strangers looked in my cupboards at the viewing, so rude!" What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Strangers · What happens: say, look, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Your mate says "Strangers looked in my cupboards at the viewing, so rude!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
| 5 | Strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cupboards | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cupboards | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cupboards | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 viewing | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 viewing | det |
| 12 | viewing | viewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rude | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 rude | advmod |
| 15 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 rude | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | Strangers | at the viewing; in my cupboards | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cupboard=Theme |
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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Viewers are looking for things to steal from the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 steal | mark |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 steal | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 steal | mark |
| 7 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looking | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steal | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | Viewers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | steal | to-infinitive | things | the house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Viewers look round to see the space, it's normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 round | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 space | det |
| 7 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 normal | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 normal | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 normal | cop |
| 11 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Viewers | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Viewers not said here | the space | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | space | normal property | tree rules |
Option 3
The estate agent hides things in cupboards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 agent | det |
| 2 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agent | compound |
| 3 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hides | nsubj |
| 4 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hides | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cupboards | case |
| 7 | cupboards | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hides | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | the estate agent | things | cupboards | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Patient in cupboard=Location |
Option 4
Viewers are not allowed to open anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 open | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Viewers | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | Viewers not said here | anything | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location anything=Theme |
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