Test 1 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything
«if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean». Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents · What happens: not buy u, be · To what, where: everything
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 490 «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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: «if ur parents don't buy u everything they're poor or mean».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 buy | mark |
| 3 | ur | your | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 buy | advmod |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | u | u | ADP | _ | 7 buy | compound:prt |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 buy | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 poor | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 poor | cop |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 everything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 mean | cc |
| 14 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poor | conj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 poor | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy u in a quote | present · do-support | ur's parents | everything | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | parents = parent | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | parents = parent not said here | tree rules |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, saying no means they're mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 saying | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 means | csubj |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 saying | obj |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mean | cop |
| 8 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | saying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | they | mean property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, comfortable families can't buy everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 buy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 families | amod |
| 4 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 buy | advmod |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | can | comfortable families | everything | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, rich parents always buy everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 rich | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parents | amod |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 buy | advmod |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | present | rich parents | everything | always property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
Option 4
No, it means they're secretly rich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rich | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rich | cop |
| 7 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 8 rich | advmod |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | they | rich, secretly property | tree rules |
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