Test 9 · Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and…
Mum to Gran: "I'm not saying the Joneses are wrong, we just do things differently." What are they talking about?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, Mum, we, Joneses · What happens: not say, be, do, talk about · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 of lesson 57 «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» 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 to Gran: "I'm not saying the Joneses are wrong, we just do things differently."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Gran | case |
| 3 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saying | nsubj |
| 7 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 saying | advmod |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wrong | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Joneses | det |
| 11 | Joneses | jones | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wrong | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrong | cop |
| 13 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrong | conj |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 17 do | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrong | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Mum to Gran | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | we | things | differently property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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 are they talking about?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 talking | obl |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 talking | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 talking | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 talking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk about | present · progressive | Joneses = jones | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
The Joneses have broken a rating law
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Joneses | det |
| 2 | Joneses | jones | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 broken | aux |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 law | det |
| 6 | rating | rating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 law | compound |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broken | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · perfect · passive | the Joneses | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient law=Result |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Families can choose differently about films
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | aux |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 3 choose | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 films | case |
| 6 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 choose | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | can | Families | about films; differently property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Gran has to decide for both families
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 decide | mark |
| 4 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 has | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 families | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 families | det |
| 7 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 decide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Gran | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | Gran not said here | for both families | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Films are banned in the Joneses' house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 banned | aux:pass |
| 3 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Joneses | det |
| 6 | Joneses | Jones | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Joneses | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 banned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | present · passive | Films | the Joneses's house | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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