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Test 8 · ★★ · When parents separate

Your cousin is sad because her favourite teddy is at Dad's and she's at Mum's this week. What is a good idea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, favourite teddy, she · What happens: be · To what, where: good idea

This is test 8 · ★★ 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 cousin is sad because her favourite teddy is at Dad's and she's at Mum's this week.

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	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sad	cop
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 Dad	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teddy	nmod:poss
7	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teddy	amod
8	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Dad	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Dad	cop
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Dad	case
11	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sad	obl
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Dad	case
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 week	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 week	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 week	cop
16	at	at	ADP	_	20 week	case
17	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 week	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Mum	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 week	det
20	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Dad	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your cousin					sad property	tree rules
2	is	present	her favourite teddy					at Dad and Mum's week	tree rules
3	is	present	she				at Mum's week		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: What is a good idea?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 idea	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 idea	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Buy a second teddy and throw away the first one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 teddy	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 teddy	amod
4	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Buy	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 throw	cc
6	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Buy	conj
7	away	away	ADP	_	6 throw	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	imperative	you not said here	a second teddy					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Theme
2	throw away	infinitive	you not said here	the first one					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2

Ask to move to Dad's for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 move	mark
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Dad	case
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Dad	case
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		Dad			for good	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dad=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Keep a small bag of the most important things that travels with her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bag	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bag	amod
4	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 things	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 important	advmod
8	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bag	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 travels	nsubj
11	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 things	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 travels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	a small bag of the important things					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
2	travel	present	the important things					with her = she	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Never take the teddy anywhere again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teddy	det
4	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 take	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	imperative	you not said here	the teddy			again	anywhere property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teddy=Theme

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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