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Test 8 · ★★ · When work goes wrong

Mum, slumped on the sofa: "Can't even decide what to cook. Done in. Months of this." What might be wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: slump, not decide, cook, do in, be · To what, where: sofa

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 4 «When work goes wrong» 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, slumped on the sofa: "Can't even decide what to cook.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slumped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 slumped	punct
3	slumped	slump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 sofa	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sofa	det
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slumped	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 decide	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 decide	punct
9	Ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 decide	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 decide	advmod
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 decide	advmod
12	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 slumped	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 cook	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cook	mark
15	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decide	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slump	participle	Mum			the sofa			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location
2	not decide in a quote	can	Mum not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cook not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Mum not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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: Done in.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Done	advmod
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in	participle							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: Months of this."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 this	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 this	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 this	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 4: What might be wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 wrong	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might						wrong property	tree rules

The options

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

Burnout from too much stress for too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Burnout	burnout	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 stress	case
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stress	amod
5	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Burnout	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 long	case
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 stress	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

She is planning a big surprise party for the family

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 planning	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 planning	aux
3	planning	plan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 party	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 party	amod
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 party	compound
7	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planning	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	present · progressive	She	a big surprise party				for the family	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Topic

Option 3

She is cross with the children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cross	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 children	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					with the children; cross property	tree rules

Option 4

She doesn't like cooking any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 like	xcomp
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 cooking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	She						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	cook not said to happen	gerund	She not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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