Test 9 · ★★ · Video calls and visiting a friend's house
Why is it a guest's job to tidy up after playing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, tidy up, play · To what, where: job
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 129 «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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 | 7 job | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 job | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 job | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 guest | det |
| 5 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 guest | case |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tidy | mark |
| 9 | tidy | tidy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 job | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 tidy | compound:prt |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 playing | mark |
| 12 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 tidy | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 job | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a guest's job | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tidy up | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | play | gerund | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Because tidying up is the price you pay for being invited round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 price | mark |
| 2 | tidying | tidy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 price | csubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 tidying | compound:prt |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 price | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 price | det |
| 6 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 price | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 invited | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 invited | aux:pass |
| 11 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 pay | advcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 invited | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tidy up | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | tidying | the price | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | you | the price not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Asset | ||||
| 4 | invite | gerund · passive | you not said here | round property | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is fair to leave the house as you found it
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 | 3 fair | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fair | cop |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fair | csubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fair property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | past | you | house | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
Option 3
Because hosts never tidy their own house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 tidy | mark |
| 2 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tidy | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 tidy | advmod |
| 4 | tidy | tidy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tidy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tidy | present | hosts | hosts's own house | tree rules |
Option 4
Because the toys belong to you then
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 belong | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 toys | det |
| 3 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 belong | nsubj |
| 4 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 belong | obl |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 belong | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the toys | you | then | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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