Test 10 · ★ · Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa
Max, watching Grandma name every royal guest: "Do you know the King, Nan?!" Nan laughs. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, you, Nan · What happens: watch, know, laugh · To what, where: Grandma name, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 53 «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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: Max, watching Grandma name every royal guest: "Do you know the King, Nan?!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max | Max | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Max | punct |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | compound |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obj |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 guest | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 guest | amod |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watching | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watching | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nan | punct |
| 17 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | conj |
| 18 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | Max | Grandma name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | the King and Nan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
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: Nan laughs.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Nan | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
She is only pretending to know the names
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 pretending | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pretending | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 pretending | advmod |
| 4 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pretending | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 names | det |
| 8 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | present · progressive | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | She not said here | the names | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
Option 2
She used to work in the palace kitchen
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 | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kitchen | compound |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | She | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | She not said here | in the palace kitchen | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
She knows names from TV and magazines, not the people
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 | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knows | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 TV | case |
| 5 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 names | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 magazines | cc |
| 7 | magazines | magazine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 names | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 people | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 names | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | She | names and magazines and the people | TV | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
Option 4
She does know him, but it's a secret
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 know | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 secret | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 secret | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 secret | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 secret | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 secret | det |
| 10 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | She | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a secret | tree rules |
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