Test 6 · ★ · Big feelings in big people
Big sister: "Dad fell over in Tesco and everyone looked, I wanted to die." What will most people in Tesco remember tomorrow?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Big sister, everyone, I, most people · What happens: fall over, look, want, die, remember · To what, where: Tesco
This is test 6 · ★ 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: Big sister: "Dad fell over in Tesco and everyone looked, I wanted to die."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sister | amod |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sister | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 5 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Tesco | case |
| 9 | Tesco | Tesco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 11 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 die | mark |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 wanted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall over in a quote | past | Big sister | Tesco | over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tesco=Location | |||
| 2 | look in a quote | past | everyone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | die not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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 will most people in Tesco remember tomorrow?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 remember | obj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | aux |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Tesco | case |
| 6 | Tesco | Tesco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | future | most people in Tesco | tomorrow | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Almost certainly nothing, they forget fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 certainly | advmod |
| 2 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 forget | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nothing | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 forget | nsubj |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 forget | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | they | nothing | fast property | tree rules |
Option 2
Your sister's name and address
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 sister | case |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 address | cc |
| 6 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | Your sister | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
That Dad is clumsy every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Dad | det |
| 2 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clumsy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 clumsy | cop |
| 4 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clumsy | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that Dad | day | clumsy property | tree rules |
Option 4
Dad's face for the rest of their lives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dad | case |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 rest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 face | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lives | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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