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Test 6 · ★ · Gran, cousins and the whole wide family

Mum, sighing: "That lot haven't spoken since Nana's will." What most likely happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: sigh, not speak, happen · To what, where: lot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 17 «Gran, cousins and the whole wide family» 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: Mum, sighing: "That lot haven't spoken since Nana's will."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sighing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sighing	punct
3	sighing	sigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 spoken	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spoken	nsubj:pass
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 spoken	advmod
10	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sighing	parataxis
11	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 will	mark
12	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 will	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Nana	case
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 spoken	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sighing	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sighing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	gerund	Mum						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not speak speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		that lot					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 most likely happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 likely	advmod
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	participle						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They speak only by text since then

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	2 speak	nsubj
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 text	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 text	case
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speak	obj
6	since	since	ADP	_	7 then	case
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	They	text					tree rules

Option 2

The family went abroad and lost touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 touch	cc
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 touch	amod
7	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the family	lost touch				abroad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	participle							vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nana wrote them all a long letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nana	Nana	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 letter	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 letter	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letter	amod
7	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Nana	them = they				all long letter obl:unmarked	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The family fell out over what was left in a will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	over	over	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 left	nsubj:pass
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 will	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 will	det
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	past	the family					out property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past · passive							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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