Sister to Mum: «Muuum, MUM, look, MUM!» Mum: «Give me five minutes or I'll lose it.» What's going on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, I · What happens: look, give, lose, go on · To what, where: me, it
This is test 4 · ★ 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: Sister to Mum: «Muuum, MUM, look, MUM!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#
word
lemma
UPOS
features
head
relation
1
Sister
sister
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 Muuum
nsubj
2
to
to
ADP
_
3 Mum
case
3
Mum
mum
NOUN
Number=Sing
1 Sister
nmod
4
:
:
PUNCT
_
6 Muuum
punct
5
«
«
PUNCT
_
6 Muuum
punct
6
Muuum
Muuum
PROPN
Number=Sing
root
root
7
,
,
PUNCT
_
8 MUM
punct
8
MUM
mum
NOUN
Number=Sing
6 Muuum
conj
9
,
,
PUNCT
_
10 look
punct
10
look
look
VERB
Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin
6 Muuum
parataxis
11
,
,
PUNCT
_
12 MUM
punct
12
MUM
mum
NOUN
Number=Sing
10 look
vocative
13
!
!
PUNCT
_
6 Muuum
punct
14
»
»
PUNCT
_
6 Muuum
punct
#
verb
tense, mood
who
what, whom
to whom
where
when
other
roles by
1
lookin a quote
infinitive
MUM vocative
vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: Mum: «Give me five minutes or I'll lose it.»
vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot toy=Theme
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.