Test 11 · Adults who help and adults who don't
Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits. Why would that help?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mr Pryce, that · What happens: get, help · To what, where: parents, streets
This is test 11 of lesson 392 «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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: Mr Pryce gets parents from both streets in for tea and biscuits.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pryce | flat |
| 2 | Pryce | Pryce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gets | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gets | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 biscuits | cc |
| 12 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tea | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Mr Pryce | parents | both streets | in tea and biscuits | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent parent=Theme from street=Source |
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: Why would that help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 help | nsubj |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | that | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Parents can agree together how to stop the fights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agree | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 agree | aux |
| 3 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 agree | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 stop | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agree | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fights | det |
| 9 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stop | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | can | Parents | together property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | Parents not said here | the fights | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality |
Option 2
It's just a party with tea and biscuits
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 | 5 party | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 party | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 party | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tea | case |
| 7 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 party | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 biscuits | cc |
| 9 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 party | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a party and biscuits | with tea | tree rules |
Option 3
Biscuits make people forget all about the fights
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 make | xcomp |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 forget | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 fights | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fights | det |
| 8 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forget | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Biscuits | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forget | infinitive | people not said here | about the fights; all property | tree rules |
Option 4
It gets parents out of the house
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 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gets | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | It | parents | the house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
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