Test 19 · ★ · Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills

my sister says a girl on school camp was so homesick she "cried for 3 days straight and had to go home". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, girl · What happens: say, be, cry, have, go, exaggerate · To what, where: prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ of lesson 307 «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 homesick	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 camp	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 camp	compound
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 homesick	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 homesick	advmod
11	homesick	homesick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 homesick	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 days	nummod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cried	obl
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 cried	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	home	home	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 homesick	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 prob	advmod
27	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 prob	cop
28	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
29	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my sister				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a girl on school camp			homesick property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express in a quote	past	girl		day	straight property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	past	girl not said here				tree rules
5	go in a quote	to-infinitive	girl not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present		prob			tree rules
7	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			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 · ✓ the right answer

The 3 days; homesickness is normal and usually passes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 homesickness	compound
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 normal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passes	cc
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 passes	advmod
10	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	days homesickness					normal property	tree rules
2	pass	present	days homesickness not said here					usually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

That teachers help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 teachers	det
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	that teachers						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That camps exist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 camps	det
2	camps	camp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 exist	nsubj
3	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	that camps						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That kids miss home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	nsubj
3	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 miss	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present	that kids					home property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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