Test 1 · ★ · Hospitals, operations and serious illness

You overhear Dad on the phone: "They kept him in A&E all night, chest pains, but he's stable now." What happened to Grandad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, They, he · What happens: overhear, keep, be, happen · To what, where: Dad, phone, him, E, Grandad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 21 «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» 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: You overhear Dad on the phone: "They kept him in A&E all night, chest pains, but he's stable now."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 overhear	nsubj
2	overhear	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overhear	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 phone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overhear	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
9	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 overhear	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 E	case
13	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 E	det
14	&	&	CCONJ	_	15 E	cc
15	E	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pains	punct
19	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pains	compound
20	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 night	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stable	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 stable	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stable	nsubj
24	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 stable	cop
25	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kept	conj
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 stable	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 overhear	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 overhear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhear	present	You	Dad	the phone			tree rules
2	keep in a quote	past	They	him = he	a E	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in e=Location
3	is in a quote	present	he			now	stable property	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 happened to Grandad?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Grandad	case
4	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was told off at work and had to stay very late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux:pass
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 told	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 work	case
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stay	mark
10	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 late	advmod
12	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · passive	He	work		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	have	past				tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive			late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He went to the emergency department and is now steady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 department	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 department	det
5	emergency	emergency	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 department	compound
6	department	department	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 steady	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 steady	cop
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 steady	advmod
10	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He			the emergency department			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to department=Initial_Location
2	is	present	He not said here				now	steady property	tree rules

Option 3

He went to a care home to live there for good with other old people

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 home	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 home	det
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 home	compound
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 live	mark
8	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 live	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 good	case
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 live	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 people	case
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He			a care home			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location
2	live	to-infinitive	He not said here			there		for good; with other old people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location

Option 4

He went to the dentist and had a big tooth taken out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 dentist	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dentist	det
5	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tooth	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tooth	amod
10	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tooth	acl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 taken	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	He		the dentist	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dentist=Initial_Location
2	have	past	He not said here	a big tooth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	take out	participle		a big tooth not said here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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