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Test 9 · ★ · Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform

Islay asked Mum for something different and Mum looked sad. «I'm a horrible kid for asking.» True?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Islay, Mum, horrible kid · What happens: ask, look, be · To what, where: horrible kid

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 487 «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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: Islay asked Mum for something different and Mum looked sad.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Islay	Islay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 something	case
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 asked	obl
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looked	cc
8	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looked	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Islay					for something	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	Mum					sad 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: «I'm a horrible kid for asking.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 kid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kid	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kid	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
5	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 asking	mark
8	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kid	acl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kid	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 kid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Islay	a horrible kid					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	gerund	a horrible kid not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: True?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No, asking is normal, and Mum's sadness isn't her fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 asking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 normal	csubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 normal	cop
5	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fault	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fault	cc
8	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sadness	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Mum	case
10	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fault	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fault	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fault	advmod
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fault	nmod:poss
14	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 normal	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	asking					normal property	tree rules
3	not is a	present	Mum's sadness	Mum's fault					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, kids should never ask for anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ask	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ask	advmod
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 ask	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	should	kids			all		for anything	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, she made Mum sad on purpose with that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 purpose	case
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	she	Mum		purpose		with that; sad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Product

Option 4

No, but she must eat jam forever to make up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 make	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	must	she	jam				forever property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jam=Patient
2	make up	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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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