Test 6 · ★ · Gratitude, helping at home and privacy
Your little brother walks into your room without knocking. What is a good way to deal with it?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little brother · What happens: walk, knock, be, deal · To what, where: room, good way
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 102 «Gratitude, helping at home and privacy» of the everyday 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: Your little brother walks into your room without knocking.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walks | nsubj |
| 4 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walks | obl |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 knocking | mark |
| 9 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walks | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Your little brother | into your room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | ||||
| 2 | knock | gerund | Your little brother not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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 is a good way to deal with it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 way | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 deal | mark |
| 7 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 deal | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deal | to-infinitive | with way | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Lock him out of the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lock | lock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Lock | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lock | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | imperative | you not said here | him = he | the house | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 2
Shout at him until he cries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shout | obl |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 cries | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cries | nsubj |
| 6 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shout | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | at him = he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | he | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Barge into his room to show how it feels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 room | nmod:poss |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Barge | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Barge | acl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 feels | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | feel | present | room | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Kindly ask him to knock and wait next time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 knock | mark |
| 5 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wait | cc |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knock | conj |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | him = he | kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | knock not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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