Test 11 · ★ · Reading faces and voices

grandad cried at my concert, was he sad?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: concert

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 14 «Reading faces and voices» 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	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 concert	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 concert	nmod:poss
5	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sad	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sad	cop
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sad	nsubj
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cried	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	grandad			my concert			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at concert=Location
2	is	past	grandad					sad property	tree rules

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

Yes, crying always means sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	csubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 crying	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund						always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	crying					sad property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He must have been hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hurt	aux:pass
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	must · perfect · passive		He					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

He didn't like the music and wanted to go home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 music	det
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 like	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	He	the music		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot music=Theme
2	want	past	He not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Maybe not, people cry when proud or happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	5 cry	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 cry	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cry	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cry	nsubj
5	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 proud	advmod
7	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cry	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 happy	cc
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 proud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cry speech: express	present	people					maybe property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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