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Test 6 · ★ · Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters

A boy keeps saying his house is bigger than everyone's. What is likely to happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, house · What happens: keep, say, be, happen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 213 «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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: A boy keeps saying his house is bigger than everyone's.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bigger	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bigger	cop
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 saying	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 bigger	obl
11	's	's	PART	_	10 everyone	case
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a boy						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a boy not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	boy's house					than everyone; big 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.

Sentence 2: What is likely to happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 happen	mark
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	happen	to-infinitive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He becomes more popular

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	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 popular	advmod
4	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	He					popular property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Everyone wants to be his friend more, so they can visit the big house

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 friend	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 friend	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	xcomp
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 wants	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 visit	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 visit	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 visit	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 visit	aux
12	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	amod
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Everyone						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here	his friend					tree rules
3	visit	can	they	the big house					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Friends feel small and move away from him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 feel	nsubj
2	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feel	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 move	cc
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feel	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	Friends					small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	move away	infinitive	Friends not said here					from him = he; away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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