Test 7 · ★ · Screen-time rules and arguments
Priya: «hoovered the whole house, that's 30 mins innit». What kind of rule does her family have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya, that, kind · What happens: hoover, be, have · To what, where: whole house, mins innit
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 421 «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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: Priya: «hoovered the whole house, that's 30 mins innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priya | Priya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hoovered | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoovered | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoovered | punct |
| 4 | hoovered | hoover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoovered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 innit | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 innit | cop |
| 11 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 mins | nummod |
| 12 | mins | minute | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 13 innit | compound |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoovered | parataxis |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoovered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoover in a quote | past | Priya | the whole house | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that | mins innit | 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.
Sentence 2: What kind of rule does her family have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rule | case |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · do-support | what kind of rule | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Losing screen time for being too noisy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 noisy | case |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 noisy | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 noisy | advmod |
| 7 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Losing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | noisy property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Earning screen time by doing chores
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Earning | earn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Earning | obj |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 doing | mark |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Earning | advcl |
| 6 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 doing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | gerund | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | chores | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality |
Option 3
Screen time only on her birthday and at Christmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | compound |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 birthday | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 birthday | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 birthday | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 6 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Christmas | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Christmas | case |
| 9 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 birthday | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No screens at all for anyone, ever, in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 screens | det |
| 2 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 screens | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 anyone | case |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ever | punct |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 anyone | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screens | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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