Test 1 · ★★ · The parents walk in: how good parents react
Lily's dad asks her to help set up safe search. Why ask her to help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, you · What happens: ask, help, set up · To what, where: Lily, safe search
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 59 «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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: Lily's dad asks her to help set up safe search.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | xcomp |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 search | amod |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Lily's dad | Lily | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lily's dad not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set up not said to happen | infinitive | Lily's dad not said here | safe search | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient search=Result |
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: Why ask her to help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 help | mark |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | Lily | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Because safe search only works for children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 works | mark |
| 2 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 search | amod |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 works | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 works | advmod |
| 5 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 works | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | safe search | for children | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
So she understands it and is part of the fix
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 understands | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understands | nsubj |
| 3 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | csubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understands | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 understands | cc |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fix | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fix | det |
| 10 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | present | she | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | part | of the fix | tree rules |
Option 3
So she is punished with extra homework
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 punished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 punished | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 punished | aux:pass |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 homework | case |
| 6 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 homework | amod |
| 7 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 punished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | present · passive | she | with extra homework | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: subject=Patient with homework=Theme |
Option 4
Because dads can't use computers at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 use | mark |
| 2 | dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 use | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 use | advmod |
| 5 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 use | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use | can | dads | computers | all | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent computer=Patient |
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