Test 6 · ★ · Finding a job and getting on

Grandma: "Since Grandad retired he's driving me round the bend, he misses work." Why might Grandad be restless?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: retire, drive, miss, be · To what, where: Grandma, me, bend, work

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 3 «Finding a job and getting on» 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: "Since Grandad retired he's driving me round the bend, he misses work."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 retired	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 retired	punct
4	Since	since	SCONJ	_	6 retired	mark
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 retired	nsubj
6	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Grandma	acl:relcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 driving	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 driving	aux
9	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 retired	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 driving	obj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 bend	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bend	det
13	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 driving	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 misses	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 misses	nsubj
16	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 retired	conj
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 misses	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 misses	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 misses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	retire in a quote	past	Grandad	Grandma not said here		tree rules
2	drive in a quote	present · progressive	Grandad	me	the bend	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme round bend=Trajectory
3	miss in a quote	present	Grandad	work		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus

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 might Grandad be restless?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 restless	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 restless	aux
3	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 restless	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 restless	cop
5	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 restless	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	Grandad					restless property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He has to work twice as hard now that he is at home all day

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 work	mark
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	xcomp
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 work	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 work	advmod
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 home	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 home	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 home	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 home	cop
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He				tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	He not said here		day	hard, twice property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	he	home	now		tree rules

Option 2

He lost all his money when he retired

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 money	nmod:poss
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 retired	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 retired	nsubj
8	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	his money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality
2	retire	past	he						vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He misses the routine, his workmates and feeling useful

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 misses	nsubj
2	misses	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 routine	det
4	routine	routine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 misses	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 workmates	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 workmates	nmod:poss
7	workmates	workmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 routine	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feeling	cc
9	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 routine	conj
10	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	He	the routine and his workmates					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer routine=Stimulus
2	feel	gerund	He not said here					useful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

He was sacked and is ashamed

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 sacked	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sacked	aux:pass
3	sacked	sack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ashamed	cc
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ashamed	cop
6	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sacked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sack	past · passive		He					vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present						ashamed property	tree rules

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