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Test 6 · Moving house and renting a home

Dad reads an advert aloud: "Charming, cosy, full of character, needs some updating." Mum laughs. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Charming, Mum · What happens: read, need, laugh · To what, where: advert, updating · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Dad reads an advert aloud: "Charming, cosy, full of character, needs some updating."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 advert	det
4	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reads	obj
5	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	2 reads	advmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 Charming	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Charming	punct
8	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 needs	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cosy	punct
10	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Charming	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 full	punct
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cosy	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 character	case
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 full	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 needs	punct
16	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	parataxis
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 updating	det
18	updating	updating	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 needs	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Dad	a advert				aloud property	tree rules
2	need in a quote	present	Charming	some updating					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot updating=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: Mum laughs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Mum						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Agent words often mean small, old and needing work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	compound
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mean	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
4	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 small	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 needing	cc
9	needing	need	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 old	conj
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Agent words	small work				often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
2	need	gerund	Agent words not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

The house is clearly perfect and brand new inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perfect	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 perfect	cop
4	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	5 perfect	advmod
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 new	cc
7	brand	brand	ADV	_	8 new	advmod
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 perfect	conj
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 perfect	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the house					clearly, inside, perfect property	tree rules
2	be		the house not said here					brand property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Mum always laughs at houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 laughs	advmod
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laughs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Mum			houses		always property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Charming means the house is enormous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Charming	charming	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enormous	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enormous	cop
6	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Charming						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the house					enormous property	tree rules

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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