Test 8 · ★ · Making peace between the streets
Lily's mum: «twice as many party bags?!» Why did Lily invite both streets?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily · What happens: invite · To what, where: streets
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 394 «Making peace between the streets» 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: Lily's mum: «twice as many party bags?!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 bags | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 bags | punct |
| 6 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 many | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bags | amod |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bags | compound |
| 10 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mum | conj |
| 11 | ?! | ?! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 mum | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Why did Lily invite both streets?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 invite | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invite | aux |
| 3 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 invite | nsubj |
| 4 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 streets | det |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 invite | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 invite | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · do-support | Lily | both streets | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Because her mum told her she had to
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 told | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 had | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | her mum | her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | mum | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Because she lost the list of who to invite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 lost | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 invite | mark |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 invite | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 invite | mark |
| 9 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 list | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | she | the list | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | the list | the list not said here | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
To get more presents from more people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 presents | amod |
| 4 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | more presents | from more people | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent present=Theme from people=Source |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To help the girls from both streets be friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 help | mark |
| 2 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 friends | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 help | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 help | obl |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 friends | cop |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | the girls | both streets | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | imperative | you not said here | friends | tree rules |
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