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Test 3 · ★ · Big feelings in big people

Dad mutters, "Bloody hospital letters," and his voice goes wobbly about Gran's check-up. What is under the grumpy words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, voice · What happens: mutter, go, be · To what, where: Bloody hospital letters, grumpy words

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 36 «Big feelings in big people» 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: Dad mutters, "Bloody hospital letters," and his voice goes wobbly about Gran's check-up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mutters	nsubj
2	mutters	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 letters	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 letters	punct
5	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 letters	amod
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 letters	compound
7	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mutters	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 letters	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 letters	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 goes	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voice	nmod:poss
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mutters	conj
14	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goes	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	20 up	case
16	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 up	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Gran	case
18	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 up	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 up	punct
20	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mutters	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	present	Dad	Bloody hospital letters					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
2	go	present	Dad's voice					about Gran's check up; wobbly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about up=Location

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: What is under the grumpy words?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 words	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 words	cop
3	under	under	ADP	_	6 words	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 words	det
5	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the grumpy words			tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He hates the postman

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 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 postman	det
4	postman	postman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	He	the postman					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer postman=Stimulus

Option 2

He thinks the letters are funny

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 letters	det
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 funny	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 funny	cop
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the letters					funny property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He is frightened for Gran

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 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	aux:pass
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Gran	case
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	present · passive		He				for Gran	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

He is bored with Gran

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 bored	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Gran	case
5	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					with Gran; bored property	tree rules

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