Test 4 · ★★★ · Relative clauses

★★★ «My brother who lives in Leeds is a chef» has no commas. What does that suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, ★, that · What happens: live, be, have, suggest · To what, where: Leeds, chef, commas

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Relative clauses» 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: ★★★ «My brother who lives in Leeds is a chef» has no commas.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 chef	punct
5	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chef	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lives	nsubj
8	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brother	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Leeds	case
10	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lives	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 chef	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 chef	det
13	chef	chef	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 chef	punct
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 commas	det
17	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	My brother		Leeds	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeds=Location
2	is a in a quote	present	My brother	a chef		tree rules
3	have	present	★	no commas		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comma=Patient

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 that suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	that						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

I have only one brother, and he happens to live in Leeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brother	nummod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happens	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 happens	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 happens	nsubj
9	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 happens	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Leeds	case
13	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	I	one brother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	happen	present	he			tree rules
3	live	to-infinitive	he not said here		Leeds	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in leeds=Location

Option 2

My brother is not really a chef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chef	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chef	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 chef	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 chef	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chef	det
7	chef	chef	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	My brother	a chef					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

I may have more than one brother, and I mean the one in Leeds

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	6 one	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 more	fixed
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brother	nummod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mean	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mean	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 mean	nsubj
11	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mean	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Leeds	case
15	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	may	I	one brother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	mean	present	I	the one				in Leeds	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot one=Theme in leeds=Attribute

Option 4

Leeds is a person, not a place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 person	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 person	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 person	det
4	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 place	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 place	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 person	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Leeds	a person and a place					tree rules

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