Test 2 · ★ · Grown-ups who argue and make up

next morning it's all "pass the salt" "ask your mother". no one's talking to anyone. what is this

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, one · What happens: be, ask, talk · To what, where: mother

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 14 «Grown-ups who argue and make up» 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	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pass	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pass	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 pass	advmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pass	punct
7	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salt	det
9	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pass	obj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pass	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
12	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 pass	parataxis
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pass	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 talking	nsubj
19	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 talking	aux
20	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pass	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 anyone	case
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 talking	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pass	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 pass	ccomp
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 what	cop
26	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 pass	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it		morning	all, pass property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive		your mother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
3	talk	present · progressive	no one			to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent
4	is a	present					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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A game where nobody may speak until somebody laughs out loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughs	nsubj
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 speak	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 speak	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 speak	aux
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 game	acl:relcl
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 somebody	case
8	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 speak	obl
9	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 laughs	advmod
11	loud	loud	ADV	_	9 laughs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	may	nobody				until somebody		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh out	present	a game					loud, out property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Breakfast always has to be silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 silent	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 silent	cop
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Breakfast					always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	Breakfast not said here					silent property	tree rules

Option 3

They both have sore throats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 throats	amod
5	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	They	sore throats					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The silent treatment, they are still cross with each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 treatment	det
2	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 treatment	amod
3	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cross	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 treatment	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cross	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cross	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 cross	advmod
8	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 cross	obl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the silent treatment				still	with each; cross property	tree rules

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