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"Sorry I'm late, Dad had one for the road and then couldn't find his keys." What did Dad do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, Dad · What happens: be, have, not find, do · To what, where: one, keys

This is test 2 of lesson 31 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» of the euphemisms 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: "Sorry I'm late, Dad had one for the road and then couldn't find his keys."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sorry	punct
2	Sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	5 late	discourse
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 late	nsubj
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 late	cop
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 late	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 had	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 find	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 find	advmod
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 find	advmod
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 late	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 keys	nmod:poss
19	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 late	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	I					late property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	past	Dad	one				for the road	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	not find in a quote	could	I not said here	Dad's keys			then		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Topic

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 did Dad do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Dad						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He drove one more lap of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lap	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 lap	amod
5	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	He	one more lap of the town					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lap=Theme

Option 2

He ate a sandwich on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sandwich	det
4	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	a sandwich		the way			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Patient

Option 3

He bought a road map

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 map	compound
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	He	a road map					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He had one last drink before leaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 drink	nummod
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	amod
5	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 leaving	mark
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	one last drink					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient
2	leave	gerund	He not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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