Test 11 · When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint

"crap, it's Wednesday morning and the bins are still in the drive". what happens now

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crap, drive · What happens: be, happen · To what, where: Wednesday morning, drive

This is test 11 of lesson 11 «When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 crap	punct
2	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drive	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 morning	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 morning	cop
6	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 morning	compound
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crap	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bins	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bins	det
10	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 morning	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 drive	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	15 drive	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 drive	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 drive	det
15	drive	drive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 drive	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 drive	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happens	nsubj
19	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 drive	acl:relcl
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 happens	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	crap	Wednesday morning and the bins			tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	crap		the drive	still	tree rules
3	happen	present	the drive			now	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The rubbish stays until the next collection, maybe one or two weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rubbish	det
2	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	ADP	_	7 collection	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 collection	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 collection	amod
7	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 weeks	punct
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	13 weeks	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 weeks	nummod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 two	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 one	conj
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stays	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the rubbish				until the next collection; week		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The bins empty themselves at the end of the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bins	det
2	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 empty	nsubj
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 empty	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 empty	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nmod

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

Option 3

The neighbours have to take your rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbours	det
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rubbish	nmod:poss
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the neighbours						tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	the neighbours not said here	your rubbish					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme

Option 4

The council will come back this afternoon specially for your bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 afternoon	det
7	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl:unmarked
8	specially	specially	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 bins	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bins	nmod:poss
11	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	future	the council				afternoon	for your bins; specially property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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