Test 10 · ★ · What people leave behind

Which of these is a keepsake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 26 «What people leave behind» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 keepsake	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 keepsake	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 keepsake	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 keepsake	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 keepsake	det
6	keepsake	keepsake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keepsake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of a keepsake	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Grandad's old watch kept in a drawer to remember him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 watch	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandad	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watch	amod
4	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 watch	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 drawer	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drawer	det
8	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 remember	mark
10	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remember	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		Grandad's old watch not said here		a drawer			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location
2	remember	to-infinitive		Grandad					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

A borrowed library book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
2	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 book	amod
3	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 book	compound
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A receipt from the supermarket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 receipt	det
2	receipt	receipt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 supermarket	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 supermarket	det
5	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 receipt	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A shiny new watch bought at the shops in town yesterday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 watch	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watch	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watch	amod
4	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 watch	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 shops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shops	det
8	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bought	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 town	case
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bought	obl
11	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	participle		a shiny new watch yesterday not said here		the shops		in town	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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