Test 6 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

Why do classmates feel upset when someone uses their pens without asking?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmates, someone · What happens: feel, use, ask · To what, where: pens

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 225 «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 feel	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	classmates	classmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 uses	advmod
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 uses	nsubj
8	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pens	nmod:poss
10	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 uses	obj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 asking	mark
12	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 uses	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present · do-support	classmates		upset property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	use	present	someone	classmates's pens		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	someone not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The pens are theirs, and they may need them or wonder where they went

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pens	det
2	pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 theirs	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 theirs	cop
4	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 need	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 need	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 need	aux
9	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 theirs	parataxis
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 need	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 wonder	cc
12	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 need	conj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 went	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wonder	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the pens	pens = pen	tree rules
2	need	may	pens = pen	them = they	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	infinitive	pens = pen not said here		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	go	past	pens = pen		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Pens break after being used by another person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 used	mark
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 used	aux:pass
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 break	advcl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 person	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Pens						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	use	gerund · passive	another person						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Pens cost too much to share with anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pens	pen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cost	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 share	mark
6	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	Pens	much					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value
2	share	to-infinitive						with anyone	tree rules

Option 4

Asking first is only needed with grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 needed	csubj:pass
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Asking	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 needed	advmod
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 ups	case
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund		first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	present · passive	Asking	with grown ups	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»
3	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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