Test 7 · Bedroom, living room and manners at home

Why does writing «milk» on the shopping list help the family?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: write, help · To what, where: milk, shopping list, family

This is test 7 of lesson 119 «Bedroom, living room and manners at home» 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 writing	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 writing	aux
3	writing	write	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 help	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 milk	punct
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writing	obj
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 milk	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 list	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 list	det
9	shopping	shopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 list	compound
10	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writing	obl
11	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present · do-support		milk		the shopping list			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme on list=Destination
2	help	present		the family					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary

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

It makes the milk last much longer

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 milk	det
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the milk				long property	tree rules
2	last	present	the milk not said here						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It is an old rule of every fridge

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 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fridge	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fridge	det
8	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a old rule				of every fridge	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whoever shops knows to buy more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 knows	nsubj
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 buy	mark
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knows	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	Whoever						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	buy	to-infinitive	Whoever not said here	more					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is only for grown-ups to read

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	7 ups	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ups	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 ups	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 ups	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 read	mark
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ups	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	It	for grown ups	tree rules
3	read	to-infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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