Test 9 · ★ · When grown-ups are tired or worried
The night after the deadline, Mum is laughing and relaxed. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: laugh
This is test 9 · ★ 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: The night after the deadline, Mum is laughing and relaxed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 deadline | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deadline | det |
| 5 | deadline | deadline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughing | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughing | aux |
| 9 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 relaxed | cc |
| 11 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 laughing | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · progressive | Mum | night | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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
She lost her job and doesn't care about anything
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 | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 job | nmod:poss |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 care | cc |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 care | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 care | advmod |
| 8 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lost | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 anything | case |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 care | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | She | her job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not care | present · do-support | She not said here | about anything | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | job | her = she | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
The deadline was moved to tomorrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 deadline | det |
| 2 | deadline | deadline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 moved | aux:pass |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tomorrow | case |
| 6 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the deadline | tomorrow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
She stayed up all night again
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 | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 stayed | compound:prt |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 stayed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay up | past | She | again; night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The work is handed in, so the stress has gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 work | det |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 handed | aux:pass |
| 4 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 handed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gone | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 gone | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stress | det |
| 9 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 handed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand in | present · passive | the work | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | present · perfect | the stress | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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