Test 8 · ★★ · The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»
Aoife's coat zip is broken and Mam won't sign up for the coat scheme. Who could gently help?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mam · What happens: break, not sign up, help · To what, where: coat zip
This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 488 «The electric meter, the food bank and «we can't afford it»» 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: Aoife's coat zip is broken and Mam won't sign up for the coat scheme.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aoife | Aoife | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 zip | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Aoife | case |
| 3 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 zip | compound |
| 4 | zip | zip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 broken | aux:pass |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sign | cc |
| 8 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sign | nsubj |
| 9 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sign | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 sign | advmod |
| 11 | sign | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 broken | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sign | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 scheme | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scheme | det |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scheme | compound |
| 16 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sign | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broken | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | Aoife's coat zip | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not sign up | future | Mam | for the coat scheme | vn volunteer-95.4-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent for scheme=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: Who could gently help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | gently property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Nobody, she has to stay cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 has | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nobody | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | xcomp |
| 7 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Nobody | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | Nobody not said here | cold property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Her teacher, by talking to Mam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 talking | punct |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 talking | mark |
| 5 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 teacher | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Mam | case |
| 7 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 talking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | Mam | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mam=Co-Agent |
Option 3
The coat shop, by giving one away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | compound |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 giving | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 giving | mark |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 shop | acl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 giving | iobj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 one | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | the coat shop not said here | one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
Option 4
Her friends, by laughing at Mam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughing | punct |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 laughing | mark |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 friends | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Mam | case |
| 7 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | Her friends not said here | Mam | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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