Test 17 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

heard a kid answered the door home alone and the guy said he was from the gas company but he was a robber

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, guy · What happens: hear, answer, say, be · To what, where: door, gas company, robber · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 kid	det
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	1 heard	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 heard	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 guy	det
11	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 company	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 company	cop
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 company	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 company	det
17	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 company	compound
18	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 robber	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 robber	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 robber	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 robber	det
23	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 company	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past		the door		alone, home property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a kid				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the guy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	guy		the gas company but a robber		tree rules
5	is a	past	guy	a robber			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

Real lesson: gas workers are always robbers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 robbers	punct
4	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 workers	compound
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 robbers	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 robbers	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 robbers	advmod
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lesson	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	gas workers	robbers				always property	tree rules

Option 2

It proves children can never be home alone

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	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proves	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 home	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 home	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 home	cop
7	home	home	ADV	_	2 proves	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 proves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It	children				alone property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	not is	can						home property	tree rules

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

Real lesson: do not open the door to anyone you were not told to expect

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 open	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 open	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 open	advmod
6	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lesson	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 open	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 told	aux:pass
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 told	advmod
14	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 anyone	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 expect	mark
16	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not open	infinitive · do-support	Real lesson not said here	the door	anyone	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent door=Patient to anyone=Recipient
2	not tell speech: assert	past · passive		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	expect not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is gossip, so opening the door is fine

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	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 fine	advmod
6	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 fine	csubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opening	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gossip	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip		tree rules
2	open	gerund		the door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	is	present	opening	gossip not said here	fine property	tree rules

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