Test 9 · ★ · Every family is different
Arlo gets home after Dougie's and his house feels really quiet. What does the lesson say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arlo, house, lesson · What happens: get, feel, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Arlo gets home after Dougie's and his house feels really quiet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arlo | Arlo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 gets | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 Dougie | case |
| 5 | Dougie | Dougie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obl |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Dougie | case |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feels | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feels | nsubj |
| 10 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | conj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 quiet | advmod |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feels | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Arlo | after Dougie | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | feel | present | Arlo's house | quiet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 does the lesson say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 say | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lesson | det |
| 4 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · do-support | the lesson | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
His own house is wrong for being so quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | amod |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 quiet | case |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 quiet | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 quiet | advmod |
| 9 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wrong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | His own house | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | quiet property | tree rules |
Option 2
Dougie's house is wrong for being so loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dougie | Dougie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Dougie | case |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 loud | case |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 loud | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 loud | advmod |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 5 wrong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Dougie's house | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | loud property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Both houses are normal, just different in their own way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 houses | det |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 normal | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 normal | cop |
| 4 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 different | advmod |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 normal | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 different | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | both houses | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | both houses not said here | houses's own way | tree rules |
Option 4
He should ask to move in with Dougie's lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 move | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 lot | case |
| 8 | Dougie | Dougie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Dougie | case |
| 10 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | He | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | move in not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | with Dougie's lot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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