Test 11 · ★ · Sore backs, glasses and feeling low
Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love." Where has she been?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouth, she · What happens: feel, belong, be · To what, where: Grandma jokes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 22 «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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: Grandma jokes, "My mouth feels like it belongs to someone else, love."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jokes | compound |
| 2 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feels | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 jokes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
| 5 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | nsubj |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 belongs | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 belongs | nsubj |
| 10 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 feels | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 belongs | obl |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 someone | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 someone | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 feels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | My mouth | Grandma jokes | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | mouth | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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: Where has she been?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 been | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 been | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 been | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 been | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present · perfect | she | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
At the optician, having her eyes tested
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 optician | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 optician | det |
| 3 | optician | optician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 optician | acl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the optician not said here | her eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | test | participle | her eyes not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
At the bank, opening a new account
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 bank | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bank | det |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opening | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bank | punct |
| 5 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 account | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 account | amod |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opening | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | gerund | a new account | the bank | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent account=Theme at bank=Location |
Option 3
At the hairdresser, having her hair cut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 hairdresser | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hairdresser | det |
| 3 | hairdresser | hairdresser | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 hairdresser | acl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the hairdresser not said here | her hair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | participle | her hair not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
At the dentist, having a filling with a numbing injection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 dentist | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dentist | det |
| 3 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dentist | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 filling | det |
| 7 | filling | filling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 injection | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 injection | det |
| 10 | numbing | numb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 injection | amod |
| 11 | injection | injection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 having | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the dentist not said here | a filling | with a numbing injection | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filling=Patient | |||
| 2 | numb | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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