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Test 4 · ★ · Big feelings in big people

Gran on the phone: "Oh, it's just me and the telly these days, love." What would cheer her up most?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: phone · What happens: be, cheer up · To what, where: me, Gran

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Gran on the phone: "Oh, it's just me and the telly these days, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 me	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Oh	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 me	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 me	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 me	advmod
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 phone	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 telly	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 telly	det
15	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 me	conj
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 days	det
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 me	obl:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 love	punct
19	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gran	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 love	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	phone	me			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: What would cheer her up most?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 cheer	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cheer	aux
3	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cheer	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 cheer	compound:prt
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cheer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cheer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer up	would		Gran				most obl	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ringing and visiting her often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 visiting	cc
3	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Ringing	conj
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 visiting	obj
5	often	often	ADV	_	1 Ringing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	gerund						often property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	visit	gerund		her = she					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

Option 2

Sending her a bigger telly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sending	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 telly	det
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 telly	amod
5	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund		a bigger telly	her = she				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination telly=Theme

Option 3

Telling her she is lucky to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 lucky	csubj
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Telling	iobj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lucky	cop
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 alone	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 alone	cop
8	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lucky	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient she=Topic
2	is	present	Telling					lucky property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	Telling not said here					alone property	tree rules

Option 4

Not bothering her so she can watch in peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 bothering	advmod
2	bothering	bother	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bothering	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 watch	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 watch	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 watch	aux
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bothering	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 peace	case
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bother	gerund		her = she					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
2	watch	can	she			peace			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location

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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