Test 6 · ★ · Birthday parties
Your friend Hannah's family are Jehovah's Witnesses and do not celebrate birthdays. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: be, not celebrate · To what, where: Witnesses, birthdays
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 130 «Birthday parties» 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 friend Hannah's family are Jehovah's Witnesses and do not celebrate birthdays.
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 | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Witnesses | nsubj |
| 3 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Hannah | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 friend | appos |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Witnesses | cop |
| 7 | Jehovah | Jehovah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Witnesses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Jehovah | case |
| 9 | Witnesses | Witness | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 celebrate | cc |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 celebrate | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 celebrate | advmod |
| 13 | celebrate | celebrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Witnesses | conj |
| 14 | birthdays | birthday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 celebrate | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Witnesses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your friend | Jehovah's Witnesses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not celebrate | infinitive · do-support | Your friend not said here | birthdays | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=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.
Sentence 2: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Bring her a secret birthday cake anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Bring | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cake | det |
| 4 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cake | amod |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cake | compound |
| 6 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 7 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 1 Bring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a secret birthday cake | her = she | anyway property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cake=Theme |
Option 2
Invite her again and again until she comes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Invite | invite | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Invite | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Invite | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 again | cc |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 again | conj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 comes | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Invite | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | imperative | you not said here | her = she | again | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | present | she | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Tell the class she is strange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 class | det |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strange | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strange | cop |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the class | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | she | strange property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Respect that and not push her to come to parties
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 push | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 push | cc |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 push | advmod |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Respect | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 push | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 push | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 parties | case |
| 10 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not push | infinitive | Respect | her = she | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Respect not said here | parties | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to party=Initial_Location |
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