Test 1 · Dates, engagements and weddings
Your little brother asks "is date night cos they're sick of us?" Put him right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little brother, they, you · What happens: ask, be, put · To what, where: date night, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 13 «Dates, engagements and weddings» 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 little brother asks "is date night cos they're sick of us?"
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 | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 night | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 night | cop |
| 7 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 night | compound |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obl |
| 9 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 12 sick | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sick | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sick | cop |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 asks | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sick | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Your little brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | date night | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | they | of us; sick property | 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: Put him right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | brother | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, couples need time together to stay close
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | couples | couple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 need | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stay | mark |
| 8 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | advcl |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | couples | time | together property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | couples not said here | close property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, parents go out to get away from children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | advcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | parents | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get away | to-infinitive | parents not said here | from children; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from child=Source |
Option 3
No, date night is when they pay the bills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 night | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | compound |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 pay | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 is | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bills | det |
| 10 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | date night | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | present | they | the bills | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |
Option 4
Yes, but only when children are naughty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 naughty | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 naughty | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 naughty | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 naughty | mark |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 naughty | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 naughty | cop |
| 8 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | children | naughty 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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