Test 3 · ★ · Every family is different
Ifeoma helps every morning, but now she's falling asleep in class and never eats breakfast. What should happen?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ifeoma · What happens: help, fall, not eat, happen · To what, where: class, breakfast
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 486 «Every family is different» 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: Ifeoma helps every morning, but now she's falling asleep in class and never eats breakfast.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ifeoma | Ifeoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 falling | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 falling | cc |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 falling | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 falling | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 falling | aux |
| 10 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 helps | advcl |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 falling | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 class | case |
| 13 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 falling | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eats | cc |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 eats | advmod |
| 16 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 helps | conj |
| 17 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 eats | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Ifeoma | morning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | present · progressive | Ifeoma | class | now | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location | ||
| 3 | not eat | present | Ifeoma not said here | breakfast | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient |
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 should happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | should | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
She tells a parent or teacher it's too much
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 teacher | cc |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 parent | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 much | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 much | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tells | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | She | a parent or teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | teacher | much property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
She skips school some days to catch up on sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 skips | nsubj |
| 2 | skips | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skips | obj |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 days | det |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 skips | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 catch | mark |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 skips | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 catch | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | present | She | school | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Agent | |||
| 2 | catch up | to-infinitive | She not said here | sleep | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
She keeps quiet and just tries even harder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tries | cc |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 tries | advmod |
| 6 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keeps | conj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 harder | advmod |
| 8 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 tries | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | She | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | try | present | She not said here | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
She stops helping her brothers ever again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 helping | obj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 helping | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 helping | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | She | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | help | gerund | She not said here | her brothers | ever; again | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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