Test 3 · ★ · Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling

Why do grown-ups want to know before you go into a neighbour's house?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown ups, you · What happens: grow, want, know, go · To what, where: house

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 117 «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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	3 grown	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grown	aux
3	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ups	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 grown	punct
5	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 know	mark
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 know	ccomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 neighbour	det
14	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 neighbour	case
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	grow	present · do-support			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	present	grown ups		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	grown ups not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	present	you	a neighbour's house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location

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

Neighbours' houses are always dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 houses	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Neighbours	case
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dirty	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dirty	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 dirty	advmod
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Neighbours's houses					always, dirty property	tree rules

Option 2

Parents want to visit too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 visit	mark
4	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	too	too	ADV	_	4 visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Parents						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	Parents not said here						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A grown-up should always know where you are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 up	det
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 up	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 know	advmod
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 know	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 where	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	should	a grown up	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	you	where property	tree rules

Option 4

It is against the law to visit anyone

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	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 visit	mark
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the law	tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive		anyone					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent

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