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Test 1 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

A girl in Calgary gets cross when her baby brother cries at dinner. What would help her be patient?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, baby brother · What happens: get, cry, help, be · To what, where: dinner, girl

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Family changes and grief» 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 girl in Calgary gets cross when her baby brother cries at dinner.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Calgary	case
4	Calgary	Calgary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gets	xcomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 cries	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brother	compound
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cries	nsubj
11	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 dinner	case
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cries	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	a girl in Calgary					cross property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	present	girl's baby brother			dinner			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dinner=Location

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 would help her be patient?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	obj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 patient	cop
6	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 help	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would			girl				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
2	is	infinitive						patient property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Knowing that babies cry to annoy people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 cry	mark
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cry	nsubj
4	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Knowing	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 annoy	mark
6	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cry	xcomp
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 annoy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	present	babies						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	annoy	to-infinitive	babies not said here	people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer

Option 2

Leaving the house every evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obj
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 evening	det
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leaving	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund		the house			evening		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Knowing that crying is the baby's only way to tell what he needs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 way	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 crying	mark
3	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Knowing	advcl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 way	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 way	advmod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 way	acl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 needs	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 needs	nsubj
14	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the baby	way					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	need	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 4

Shouting at the baby to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 baby	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shouting	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund				the baby			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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