Test 7 · ★ · The library and books
A girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves reading. What could help her most?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, money · What happens: not have, buy, love, help · To what, where: money, books, reading, girl
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 259 «The library and books» 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 girl in Adelaide does not have money to buy books but loves reading.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Adelaide | case |
| 4 | Adelaide | Adelaide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 have | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buy | mark |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | xcomp |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buy | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 loves | cc |
| 13 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | conj |
| 14 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loves | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | a girl in Adelaide | money | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | money not said here | books | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | love | present | a girl in Adelaide not said here | reading | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reading=Stimulus |
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 could help her most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | girl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
The options
Option 1
Waiting until she is grown up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | until | until | ADP | _ | 3 she | case |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Waiting | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux:pass |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grown | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | until she | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow up | present · passive | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Getting her own public library card
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 card | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 card | amod |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 card | amod |
| 5 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 card | compound |
| 6 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Getting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | her own public library card | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer card=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Reading only one new book a year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 book | nummod |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 book | amod |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reading | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reading | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | one new book | year | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |
Option 4
Only reading the books she owns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 reading | advmod |
| 2 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 books | det |
| 4 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reading | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 owns | nsubj |
| 6 | owns | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 books | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | the books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | |||||
| 2 | own | present | she | the books not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot book=Theme |
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