Test 2 · ★★ · Family changes and grief
A boy's grandparents let him stay up late, but his parents do not. At his grandparents' house, what is right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandparents, boy, parents · What happens: let, stay up, not do, be · To what, where: boy, house
This is test 2 · ★★ 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 boy's grandparents let him stay up late, but his parents do not.
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 | 4 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 boy | case |
| 4 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 stay | compound:prt |
| 9 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 stay | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | a boy's grandparents | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay up | infinitive | boy not said here | late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not do | present | boy's parents | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: At his grandparents' house, what is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 grandparents | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 right | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 right | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 right | cop |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | boy's grandparents's house | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Stay up even later
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Stay | compound:prt |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 later | advmod |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay up | imperative | you not said here | late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Follow the grandparents' house rules kindly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grandparents | det |
| 3 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rules | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 3 grandparents | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rules | compound |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Follow | obj |
| 7 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 1 Follow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | the grandparents's house rules | kindly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | |||
| 2 | rule | the grandparents | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Ring his parents to complain about the new bedtime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ring | ring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 1 Ring | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 complain | mark |
| 5 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ring | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 bedtime | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bedtime | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bedtime | amod |
| 9 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 complain | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | imperative | you not said here | his parents | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location parent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | about the new bedtime | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bedtime=Topic |
Option 4
Refuse to go to bed at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 go | mark |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Refuse | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | imperative | you not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not go | to-infinitive | you not said here | all | to bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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