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Test 8 · ★★ · When Grandma and Grandad need more help

Dad laughs, "I walked into the kitchen and forgot why, I must be going senile!" Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dad, I · What happens: laugh, walk, forget, go, be · To what, where: kitchen, senile · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 23 «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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: Dad laughs, "I walked into the kitchen and forgot why, I must be going senile!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughs	parataxis
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forgot	cc
11	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	conj
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 forgot	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 laughs	parataxis
18	senile	senile	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	xcomp
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	Dad						tree rules
2	walk in a quote	past	I					into the kitchen result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Result
3	forget in a quote	past	I not said here						tree rules
4	go in a quote	must · progressive	I	senile					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Dad					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Yes, it is the first sign of dementia for sure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 sign	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sign	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sign	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sign	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 sign	amod
7	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 dementia	case
9	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sign	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 sure	case
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sign	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the first sign				of dementia; for sure	tree rules

Option 2

No, he did it on purpose to make you laugh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 purpose	case
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he	it		purpose			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	he not said here	you					tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, forgetting little things now and then is normal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 forgetting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	forgetting	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 normal	csubj
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forgetting	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 forgetting	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 then	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 now	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 normal	cop
10	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	gerund		little things			now		tree rules
2	is	present	forgetting					normal property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, everyone over forty has dementia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 has	nsubj
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 forty	case
5	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 everyone	nmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	dementia	dementia	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	everyone	dementia					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dementia=Patient

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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