Test 5 · ★ · When grown-ups are tired or worried
Gran in Dublin texts Mum all day from hospital. Mum keeps checking her phone and doesn't hear your joke. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gran, Mum, your · What happens: text, keep, check, not hear, joke · To what, where: Mum, phone, joke
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Gran in Dublin texts Mum all day from hospital.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Dublin | case |
| 3 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gran | nmod |
| 4 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | obj |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 texts | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hospital | case |
| 9 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 texts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present | Gran in Dublin | Mum | day | 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: Mum keeps checking her phone and doesn't hear your joke.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | checking | check | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 phone | nmod:poss |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checking | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hear | cc |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hear | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hear | advmod |
| 9 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 keeps | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 joke | nmod:poss |
| 11 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hear | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Mum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | check | gerund | Mum not said here | Mum's phone | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not hear | present · do-support | Mum not said here | your joke | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | joke | your | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
Sentence 3: 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 · ✓ the right answer
She's worried and waiting for news
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 worried | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worried | cop |
| 3 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waiting | cc |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 worried | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | She not said here | for news | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
She's cross because you were loud
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 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cross | cop |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 loud | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 loud | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 loud | cop |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cross | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | She | cross | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | you | cross not said here | loud property | tree rules |
Option 3
She's playing a game on her phone
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 playing | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 playing | aux |
| 3 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 playing | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 phone | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 phone | nmod:poss |
| 8 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 playing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · progressive | She | a game | her phone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
Option 4
She doesn't like your jokes any more
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 | 4 like | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 like | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 like | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 jokes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 like | obj |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 like | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | She | your jokes | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot joke=Theme | ||||
| 2 | joke | your | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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