Test 4 · ★ · Jealousy, boredom, pride and hard moments

Why might a younger child wait for another day to play with an older brother?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: younger child · What happens: wait, play

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wait	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	nsubj
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wait	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wait	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 brother	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 brother	det
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 brother	amod
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 play	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	might	a younger child				day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	to-infinitive	a younger child not said here					with a older brother	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brother=Co-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

Older brothers must always be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 brothers	amod
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 alone	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 alone	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 alone	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 alone	cop
6	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	Older brothers					alone, always property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Younger children are not allowed to play with older ones at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 allowed	advmod
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 ones	case
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 play	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Younger children					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	Younger children not said here			all		with older ones	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=Theme

Option 3

Older siblings never like younger ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 siblings	amod
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ones	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 ones	case
5	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 siblings	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Older siblings need time with friends their own age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 siblings	amod
2	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 friends	case
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 time	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 age	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 age	amod
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 friends	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Older siblings				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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