Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Adult life / Looking after yourself and a home / t9

Test 9 · Looking after yourself and a home

Your mate says, "Being late's no biggie, my uncle's late for work every day." What might happen to the uncle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, biggie, uncle · What happens: say, be, happen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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: Your mate says, "Being late's no biggie, my uncle's late for work every day."

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 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct
6	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 late	cop
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	's	's	PART	_	7 late	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 biggie	det
10	biggie	biggie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 late	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 late	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 uncle	nmod:poss
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 late	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 late	cop
15	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 work	case
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 late	obl
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 day	det
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 late	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 late	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	gerund	no biggie					late property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	my uncle				day	for work; late property	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 might happen to the uncle?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 uncle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 uncle	det
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	might						to the uncle	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing ever, late is fine at work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Nothing	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct
4	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 fine	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 work	case
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				work		fine, late property	tree rules

Option 2

He will be made the manager

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	4 made	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 manager	det
6	manager	manager	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	future · passive		He					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary manager=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could lose his job

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 lose	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 job	nmod:poss
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	could	He	his job					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		his = he						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

His boss will give him a pay rise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 boss	nmod:poss
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rise	det
7	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rise	compound
8	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	future	His boss	a pay rise	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rise=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/t9/