Test 1 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments

Which is TRUE about parents with a new baby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 292 «Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	ADP	_	5 parents	case
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 TRUE	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 baby	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 baby	det
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 baby	amod
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about parents; with a new baby; true property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

They only love the youngest child

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	3 love	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 love	advmod
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	They	the youngest child					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 2

They have stopped loving the older children

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	3 stopped	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	aux
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	loving	love	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stopped	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present · perfect	They						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	love	gerund	They not said here	the older children					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They love all their children, but a baby needs lots of care

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	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 children	det:predet
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod:poss
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 love	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 needs	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 needs	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 love	parataxis
11	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 needs	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 care	case
13	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	They	their children					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	need	present	a baby	lots of care					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme

Option 4

They want the older child to look after the baby alone from now on

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	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	advcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 baby	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 baby	det
10	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 now	case
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 look	advmod
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 now	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	the older child					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot child=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	They not said here				after the baby	alone property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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