Test 3 · Looking after yourself and a home
Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!" What is the lesson?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, lesson · What happens: laugh, put in, be · To what, where: red sock
This is test 3 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» 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: Mum, laughing: "Who put a red sock in with the school shirts?!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughing | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sock | det |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sock | amod |
| 10 | sock | sock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 shirts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shirts | det |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shirts | compound |
| 15 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obl |
| 16 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | Mum | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put in in a quote | past | a red sock | with the school shirts | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sock=Goal |
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 the lesson?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lesson | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Wash everything together to save time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Wash | obj |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Wash | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 save | mark |
| 5 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wash | advcl |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 save | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | imperative | you not said here | everything | together property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | |||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Never wash school shirts at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 wash | advmod |
| 2 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shirts | compound |
| 4 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wash | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 wash | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wash | imperative | you not said here | school shirts | all | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Red socks are not allowed at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 socks | amod |
| 2 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 school | case |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Red socks | school | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sort laundry by colour before washing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laundry | compound |
| 2 | laundry | laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 colour | case |
| 4 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laundry | nmod |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 washing | mark |
| 6 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 laundry | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | gerund | Sort laundry by colour not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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