Test 8 · ★ · Gran, cousins and the whole wide family
Mum, reading a card: "Fifty years! I can't imagine putting up with anyone that long." What is it for?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, I · What happens: read, not imagine, put up, be · To what, where: card
This is test 8 · ★ 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, reading a card: "Fifty years!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reading | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reading | punct |
| 3 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 card | det |
| 5 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reading | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 years | punct |
| 8 | Fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reading | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 reading | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | Mum | a card | year | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Topic |
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: I can't imagine putting up with anyone that long."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 imagine | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 imagine | advmod |
| 4 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 imagine | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 putting | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 putting | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 long | nsubj |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anyone | amod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 imagine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | can | I | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put up | gerund | I not said here | with anyone | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What is it for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | card | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A silver wedding anniversary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 anniversary | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anniversary | amod |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anniversary | compound |
| 4 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A retirement party
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 2 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 party | compound |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A fiftieth birthday party
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 2 | fiftieth | fiftieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 party | amod |
| 3 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 party | compound |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A golden wedding anniversary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 anniversary | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anniversary | amod |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 anniversary | compound |
| 4 | anniversary | anniversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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