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Test 7 · ★★ · Big kids, little kids and the truth at home

Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: buy · To what, where: cone, Jacob

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 433 «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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: Jacob's sister bought him a cone after the ice-cream van joke.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jacob	case
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bought	nsubj
4	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bought	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cone	det
7	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bought	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	14 joke	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 joke	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cream	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ice	punct
12	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 van	compound
13	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 joke	compound
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bought	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Jacob's sister	a cone	Jacob		after the van joke		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary cone=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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Because Mum told her the joke was true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mum		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is	past	the joke					true property	tree rules

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

To say sorry for tricking him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 say	mark
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 say	xcomp
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 tricking	mark
5	tricking	trick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 say	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: apologize	to-infinitive						sorry property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	trick	gerund		him = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

To trick him again the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 trick	mark
2	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trick	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 trick	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trick	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	to-infinitive		him = he			again; day		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Because the van was giving out free cones that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 giving	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 van	det
3	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 giving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giving	aux
5	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 giving	compound:prt
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cones	amod
8	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 giving	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cones	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give out	past · progressive	the van	free cones that day					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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