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Test 4 · ★★ · Family changes and grief

Two step-sisters keep arguing about the TV. What is most likely to help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two step sisters · What happens: keep, argue, be, help

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Two step-sisters keep arguing about the TV.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
2	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sisters	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 step	punct
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 TV	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 TV	det
9	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arguing	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Two step sisters						tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	Two step sisters not said here					about the TV	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about tv=Topic

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 is most likely to help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 help	mark
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 likely	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Making one of them always win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 win	csubj
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Making	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 one	nmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 win	advmod
6	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		one of them					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product
2	win	present	Making					always property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Never speaking to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 speaking	advmod
2	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 speaking	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	gerund						to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent

Option 3

Asking the parents to split up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parents	det
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Asking	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 split	mark
5	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 split	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the parents				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic
2	split up not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Finding things they both enjoy and giving each other space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Finding	obj
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enjoy	nsubj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 enjoy	advmod
5	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 things	acl:relcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 giving	cc
7	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Finding	conj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 space	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 space	amod
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		things					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	enjoy	present	things = thing	things not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	give	gerund		each other space					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme

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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