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Test 7 · ★★ · The parents walk in: how good parents react

At the school gate one mum says, "I rang Poppy's mum about the sleepover, she was ever so good about it." What does this mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one mum, mum, this · What happens: say, ring, be, mean · To what, where: school gate, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: At the school gate one mum says, "I rang Poppy's mum about the sleepover, she was ever so good about it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gate	compound
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	obl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 mum	nummod
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rang	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 rang	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 rang	nsubj
11	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
12	Poppy	Poppy	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 mum	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Poppy	case
14	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rang	obj
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 sleepover	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sleepover	det
17	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rang	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 good	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 good	cop
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 good	advmod
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rang	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 good	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	one mum			the school gate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ring in a quote	past	one mum = mum	Poppy's mum				about the sleepover	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	mum				ever	about sleepover; good 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: What does this mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	this						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Poppy's mum didn't know about the sleepover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppy	Poppy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Poppy	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 sleepover	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sleepover	det
9	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Poppy's mum					about the sleepover	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about sleepover=Stimulus

Option 2

Poppy's mum is going to be in big trouble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poppy	Poppy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Poppy	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	10 trouble	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 trouble	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 trouble	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trouble	amod
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	Poppy's mum						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Poppy's mum not said here			big trouble			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The parents talked calmly to sort it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parents	det
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	3 talked	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sort	mark
6	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talked	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sort	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 sort	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the parents					calmly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sort out	to-infinitive	the parents not said here	it					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

The two mums had a big row at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mums	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 mums	nummod
3	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 row	amod
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the two mums	a big row		the gate			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient

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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