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Test 5 · ★ · What people leave behind

At Nan's house, Mum finds a box of letters Nan kept for sixty years and sits on the floor crying. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, Nan · What happens: find, keep, sit, cry · To what, where: box, house, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: At Nan's house, Mum finds a box of letters Nan kept for sixty years and sits on the floor crying.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 house	case
2	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 house	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Nan	case
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 house	punct
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	nsubj
7	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finds	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 letters	case
11	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 box	nmod
12	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 finds	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kept	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sits	cc
18	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 finds	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 floor	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 floor	det
21	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sits	obl
22	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sits	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	Mum	a box of letters		Nan's house			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent box=Attribute clause=Theme
2	keep	past	Nan				year		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit	present	Mum not said here			the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
4	cry speech: express	gerund	Mum not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

She has hurt her back lifting all the heavy boxes down the stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hurt	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hurt	aux
3	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hurt	obj
6	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 hurt	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 boxes	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boxes	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boxes	amod
10	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lifting	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	13 stairs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stairs	det
13	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lifting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · perfect	She	her back					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient
2	lift	gerund	She not said here	all heavy boxes		the stairs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme down stair=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Old things bring back strong memories of Nan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	nsubj
3	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 bring	advmod
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 memories	amod
6	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Nan	case
8	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 memories	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	present	Old things	strong memories of Nan					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent memory=Theme

Option 3

The letters are old bills Nan never got round to paying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letters	det
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bills	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bills	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bills	amod
5	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	Nan	Nan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 got	advmod
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bills	acl:relcl
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
10	to	to	SCONJ	_	11 paying	mark
11	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 got	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the letters	old bills					tree rules
2	not get round	past	Nan	old bills not said here				round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus
3	pay	gerund	Nan not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She is crying only because the box is so heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crying	aux
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heavy	csubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 box	advmod
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	7 box	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crying	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heavy	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 heavy	advmod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	She	the box					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic
2	is	present	crying					heavy property	tree rules

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