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Test 10 · ★★ · When parents separate

Your little sister cries "if we're really really good, Dad will come home". What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, we, Dad · What happens: cry, be, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 15 «When parents separate» 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 sister cries "if we're really really good, Dad will come home".

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cries	nsubj
4	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 good	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 good	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 good	cop
9	really	really	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 good	advmod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cries	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 good	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 good	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cries	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Your little sister						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we					good property	tree rules
3	come in a quote	future	Dad					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	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

Yes, being good for a month will bring Dad home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 bring	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	aux
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	csubj
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	9 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						good property	tree rules
2	bring	future	a month		Dad			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dad=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Children cannot undo a separation, and being good or naughty didn't cause it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 undo	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 undo	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 undo	advmod
4	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 separation	det
6	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undo	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 good	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 good	cop
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cause	csubj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 naughty	cc
12	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 good	conj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cause	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 cause	advmod
15	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 undo	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not undo	can	Children	a separation					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent separation=Patient
2	is	gerund						good property	tree rules
3	be								tree rules
4	not cause	past · do-support		separation					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient

Option 3

Yes, but only if both of you are good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 good	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 good	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	10 good	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 good	mark
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 good	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 both	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both					good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, Dad will come home only if she cries more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 cries	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 cries	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cries	nsubj
10	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	advcl
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 cries	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	future	Dad					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express a condition, not said to happen	present	she						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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