Test 6 · ★★ · Going where you're not allowed

Dad, worried: «street lights came on half an hour ago». What does this mean for the boy?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: street lights, this · What happens: come on, mean

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 349 «Going where you're not allowed» 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: Dad, worried: «street lights came on half an hour ago».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worried	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 worried	punct
3	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 lights	punct
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lights	compound
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 worried	parataxis
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 hour	det:predet
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on in a quote	past	street lights					ago property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What does this mean for the boy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	this					for the boy	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme for boy=Attribute

The options

Option 1

Dad was joking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 joking	aux
3	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	joke speech: other	past · progressive	Dad						vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It doesn't matter in summer, when it stays light until very late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stays	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 stays	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stays	nsubj
10	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	conj
11	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stays	xcomp
12	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 late	mark
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It				summer		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	stay	present	it					late, light property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He broke his promise to come in, and Dad was worried

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 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 promise	nmod:poss
4	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 broke	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promise	acl
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 worried	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 worried	cc
10	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worried	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 worried	cop
12	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 broke	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	past	He	his promise		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
2	come in	to-infinitive	He not said here	his promise not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Dad		worried property	tree rules
4	promise		his = he			nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Street lights don't mean anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lights	compound
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	Street lights	anything					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

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