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Test 11 · ★ · When grown-ups are tired or worried

Big sister: «Mum's always knackered, she must be really ill.» Is she right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: knacker, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 34 «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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: Big sister: «Mum's always knackered, she must be really ill.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sister	amod
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 knackered	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 knackered	punct
5	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knackered	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knackered	aux
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 knackered	advmod
8	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sister	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ill	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ill	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 ill	cop
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knackered	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 sister	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker in a quote	present · passive	Mum					always property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	must	Mum					ill property	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.

Sentence 2: Is she 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, being tired always means a bad illness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tired	cop
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 means	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 means	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 illness	det
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 illness	amod
9	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						tired property	tree rules
2	mean	present	tired	a bad illness				always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not usually; a good night's sleep often fixes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 usually	advmod
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 fixes	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 sleep	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 night	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 night	case
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fixes	obl
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 fixes	advmod
10	fixes	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fixes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	present		a good night's sleep				often, usually property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sleep		a good night						nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yes, grown-ups never get tired for no reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 get	advmod
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 reason	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 reason	det
11	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not get	present	grown ups					for no reason; tired property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for reason=Source

Option 4

No, Mum is just pretending to be tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 pretending	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretending	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pretending	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 pretending	advmod
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 tired	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 tired	cop
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	Mum						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	Mum not said here					tired property	tree rules

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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