Test 19 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

apparently that boy's parents are splitting up cos he's so naughty, everyone's saying it. what's just a rumour?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents, everyone · What happens: split up, say, be · To what, where: it, rumour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	7 splitting	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parents	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 boy	case
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 splitting	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 splitting	aux
7	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 naughty	csubj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 splitting	compound:prt
9	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 naughty	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 naughty	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 naughty	aux
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 naughty	advmod
13	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	17 saying	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 saying	aux
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 naughty	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saying	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 naughty	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 rumour	nsubj
21	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 rumour	cop
22	just	just	ADV	_	24 rumour	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rumour	det
24	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 naughty	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 naughty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	split up	present · progressive	that boy's parents		apparently property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present · progressive	everyone	it		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	is a	present		a rumour		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

That his parents may be separating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 separating	nsubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parents	nmod:poss
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 separating	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 separating	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 separating	aux
6	separating	separate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	may · progressive	That						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

That he might feel upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 feel	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feel	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	might	That					upset property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

That children feel better talking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 talking	amod
5	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	that children	better talking					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talking=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That it's his fault; separation is never the child's fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fault	nsubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fault	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fault	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fault	nmod:poss
5	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 fault	punct
7	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fault	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fault	cop
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 fault	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 child	det
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fault	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 child	case
13	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fault	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	his fault and the child's fault					tree rules
2	not is a	present	separation	the child's fault					tree rules

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