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Test 10 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

Grandpa tells you about the farm he grew up on. Why ask him questions?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandpa, you · What happens: tell, grow up, ask · To what, where: you, questions, Grandpa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: Grandpa tells you about the farm he grew up on.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 tells	iobj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 farm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grew	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADV	_	8 grew	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Grandpa		you			about the farm	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about farm=Topic
2	grow up	past	Grandpa						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: Why ask him questions?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ask	obj
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ask	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	questions	Grandpa				tree rules

The options

Option 1

Because it is homework

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 homework	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 homework	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 homework	cop
4	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					because homework	tree rules

Option 2

Old stories are always made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		Old stories				always property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 3

So he gets to the end and stops talking a bit sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 gets	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stops	cc
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	conj
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stops	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talking	obl:unmarked
12	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 talking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	he				to the end		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result
2	stop	present	he not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	he not said here	a bit				soon property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

His stories are family history that only he can tell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stories	nmod:poss
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 history	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 history	cop
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 history	compound
5	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tell	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 history	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	His stories	family history					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	can	he	family history					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient

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