Test 2 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments
A girl in Leeds is bored during the holidays. Which is the best plan?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: be · To what, where: best plan
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Leeds is bored during the holidays.
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 | 6 bored | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bored | cop |
| 6 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | during | during | ADP | _ | 9 holidays | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 holidays | det |
| 9 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bored | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a girl in Leeds | during the holidays | bored 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.
Sentence 2: Which is the best plan?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 plan | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 plan | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 plan | amod |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 plan | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best plan | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Phone her friends again and again to complain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friends | compound |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 again | nsubj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 again | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 again | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 complain | mark |
| 8 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 again | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | to-infinitive | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Complain until someone gives her a phone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complain | complain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 gives | mark |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Complain | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gives | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 phone | det |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complain speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | present | someone | a phone | her = she | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient phone=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Write a story, do a puzzle or help cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Write | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Write | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 puzzle | det |
| 7 | puzzle | puzzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 help | cc |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Write | conj |
| 10 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 help | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | imperative | you not said here | a story | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | a puzzle | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cook | infinitive | you not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Lie in bed all day doing nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 day | acl |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 doing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | imperative | you not said here | bed | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | all day not said here | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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