Test 8 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness
Ella grew a lot this year and her best friend hardly at all. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ella · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: lot
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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: Ella grew a lot this year and her best friend hardly at all.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 friend | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 friend | amod |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 year | conj |
| 11 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 2 grew | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 hardly | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Ella | a lot | year | hardly property | 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: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Both are normal, as bodies grow at different times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 normal | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | cop |
| 3 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 normal | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 times | case |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Both | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | bodies | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
They must have eaten different breakfasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 breakfasts | amod |
| 6 | breakfasts | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eaten | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | must · perfect | They | different breakfasts | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
Option 3
Her friend will never grow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 grow | advmod |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | future | Her friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Ella must be ill, because she grew so fast in one year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ill | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ill | cop |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ella | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fast | advmod |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 year | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | ill property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | Ella | year | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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