Test 5 · ★★ · Being a good grown-up
Big brother hid a problem at work for months until it exploded. What would have been better?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Big brother, problem · What happens: hide, explode, be · To what, where: problem, work
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Being a good grown-up» 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 brother hid a problem at work for months until it exploded.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | amod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 problem | det |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 months | case |
| 9 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hid | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 exploded | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 exploded | nsubj |
| 12 | exploded | explode | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Big brother | a problem | work | month | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent problem=Patient at work=Location | ||
| 2 | explode | past | problem | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 have been better?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 better | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 What | amod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would · perfect | good property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Quitting before anybody found out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quitting | quit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 found | csubj:pass |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 anybody | case |
| 3 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Quitting | obl |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 found | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quit | gerund | before anybody | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find out | participle | Quitting | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Hiding it for even longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hiding | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 longer | case |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Hiding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | it | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Asking for help early
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 help | case |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Asking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help; early property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Blaming a colleague for it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 colleague | det |
| 3 | colleague | colleague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blaming | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Blaming | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | gerund | a colleague | for colleague | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent colleague=Theme for it=Attribute |
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