Test 2 · ★★ · Home alone, keys and garden play

Why might one family let a 10-year-old stay home alone and another family not?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: one family, year old · What happens: not let, stay

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 116 «Home alone, keys and garden play» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 let	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 family	nummod
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 old	det
7	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 year	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 10	punct
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 old	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 year	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stay	nsubj
12	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 stay	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 family	cc
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 family	det
17	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	conj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 let	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	might	one family						vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	stay	present	a year old					alone, home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

All families everywhere must follow exactly the same rule on this by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 follow	nsubj
3	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 follow	advmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 follow	aux
5	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 rule	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rule	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rule	amod
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 rule	nmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 law	case
13	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	must	all families	the same rule		this		by law; everywhere property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rule=Theme by law=Trajectory

Option 2

Children who can cook may always stay alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stay	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 cook	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cook	aux
4	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Children	acl:relcl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 stay	advmod
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	can	Children						vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	stay	may	Children					alone, always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Laws and advice differ by place, and grown-ups decide for each child

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 differ	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 advice	cc
3	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laws	conj
4	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 place	case
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 differ	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decide	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 decide	cc
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ups	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 grown	punct
11	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 decide	nsubj
12	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 differ	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 child	case
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 child	det
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	differ	present	Laws and advice	by place	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	decide	present	grown ups	for each child	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It depends only on how tall the child is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 tall	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tall	case
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tall	advmod
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 depends	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tall	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tall	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	It						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						tall property	tree rules

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