Test 14 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

baby wont stop crying, why is he doing that

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby wont stop, he · What happens: cry, do · To what, where: that

This is test 14 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	compound
2	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	amod
3	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 doing	advmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stop	conj
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	baby wont stop not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present · progressive	he	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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

He doesn't like you

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	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 like	advmod
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not like	present · do-support	He	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He's telling us he's hungry, tired or uncomfortable

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	3 telling	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 telling	iobj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hungry	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 telling	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tired	punct
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hungry	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 uncomfortable	cc
11	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hungry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	He	us		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
2	is	present	he		hungry property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here			tree rules
4	be		he not said here			tree rules

Option 3

He's being naughty on purpose to wind everyone up

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 naughty	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 naughty	aux
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 naughty	cop
4	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 naughty	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 everyone	mark
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everyone	compound
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 naughty	advcl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 everyone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · progressive	He			purpose		naughty property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Babies cry for no reason at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cry	nsubj
2	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 reason	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cry	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Babies			all		for no reason	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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