Test 3 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

Gran: «comics rot your brain, give her a proper book.» What would you say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: comics, you · What happens: rot, give, say · To what, where: brain, proper book, her · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 16 «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the English 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: Gran: «comics rot your brain, give her a proper book.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 rot	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 rot	punct
4	comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rot	nsubj
5	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Gran	parataxis
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brain	nmod:poss
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rot	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rot	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 book	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 book	amod
13	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot in a quote	present	comics	your brain					tree rules
2	give in a quote	infinitive	comics not said here	a proper book	her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient book=Theme

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 would you say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	you						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Comics are real reading, and she can have other books too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reading	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reading	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reading	amod
4	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 have	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reading	conj
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 books	amod
11	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	9 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Comics	real reading					tree rules
2	have	can	she	other books					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient

Option 2

Comics are only for very little children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 children	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 children	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 children	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Comics					for little children	tree rules

Option 3

Gran's right, the pictures do the work so children stop thinking for themselves

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 right	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Gran	case
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pictures	det
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 work	det
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 stop	advmod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stop	nsubj
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
13	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stop	xcomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 themselves	case
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	the pictures	the work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	stop	present	children			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	gerund	children not said here		for children = child	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Gran's right, comics have no words worth learning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 comics	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Gran	case
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 comics	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
9	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 learning	amod
10	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Gran's right comics	no words					tree rules

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