Test 9 · ★★ · Home alone, the door and the phone

Why do families agree on rules before a child stays home alone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: families, child · What happens: agree, stay

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 agree	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 agree	aux
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 agree	nsubj
4	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 rules	case
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 agree	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 stays	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stays	nsubj
10	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 agree	advcl
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 stays	advmod
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 stays	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present · do-support	families					on rules	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on rule=Topic
2	stay	present	a child					alone, home property	vn exist-47.1 «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.

The options

Option 1

So the neighbours know the house is empty and keep an eye on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 empty	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 empty	cop
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eye	det
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	the neighbours				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the house			empty property	tree rules
3	keep	infinitive	the neighbours not said here	a eye	house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on it=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So the child knows what to do before anything happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 knows	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knows	ccomp
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 happens	mark
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 happens	nsubj
10	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	present	the child	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	happen	present	anything	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

So the child can do anything they like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	the child	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
2	like	present	they						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

So the parents can stay out longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parents	det
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out	can	the parents					long, out property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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