Test 3 · ★ · Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a…
A new friend asks a boy who is adopted lots of questions about his birth family. Which is TRUE?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new friend · What happens: ask, adopt, be · To what, where: boy
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 320 «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 new friend asks a boy who is adopted lots of questions about his birth family.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adopted | aux:pass |
| 9 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 boy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 adopted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 questions | case |
| 12 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lots | nmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 15 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 family | compound |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 questions | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a new friend | a boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | adopt | present · passive | a boy | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme lot=Attribute |
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 TRUE?
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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 TRUE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He has to answer every question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 answer | mark |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 has | xcomp |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 question | det |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | He not said here | every question | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
Option 2
He must ask a teacher before he answers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 answers | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answers | nsubj |
| 8 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | must | He | a teacher | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | teacher | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He can choose how much to share
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 choose | aux |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 choose | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 share | mark |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 much | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | can | He | much | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | share | to-infinitive | tree rules |
Option 4
He should not have friends who ask
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | should | He | friends | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | friends | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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