Test 7 · ★★ · Being a good grown-up
Your little sister says, "Mum's always tired cos she's lazy." Put her right.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, Mum, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Your little sister says, "Mum's always tired cos she's lazy."
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 | 3 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sister | amod |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tired | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Mum | case |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 tired | advmod |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 14 lazy | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lazy | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lazy | cop |
| 14 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tired | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tired | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your little sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mum | lazy 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: Put her right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Put | advmod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | Mum | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, she's tired because she's ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 tired | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tired | cop |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 ill | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ill | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ill | cop |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tired | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | she | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | she | ill property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, she just likes sleeping
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 likes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 likes | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 likes | advmod |
| 5 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 likes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | she | sleeping | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleeping=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, grown-ups get lazy as they get older, everybody knows that
The tree, 12 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 get | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ups | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
| 5 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | advcl |
| 11 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 get | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knows | punct |
| 13 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 knows | nsubj |
| 14 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 knows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | grown ups | lazy property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | get | present | ups = up | old property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | know | present | everybody | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
She's tired from looking after Gran and us too
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 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 looking | mark |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tired | advcl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 Gran | case |
| 7 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 us | cc |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Gran | conj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 looking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | She | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | She not said here | after Gran | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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