Test 10 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything
Haruka wants to keep giving without anyone calling her a show-off. What could she do next time?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Haruka · What happens: want, keep, give, call, do · To what, where: Haruka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ 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: Haruka wants to keep giving without anyone calling her a show-off.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haruka | Haruka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 giving | obl |
| 8 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 giving | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 calling | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 off | det |
| 11 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 off | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 off | punct |
| 13 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calling | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Haruka | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Haruka not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | gerund | Haruka not said here | without anyone | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | Haruka not said here | Haruka | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme off=Result |
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 could she do next time?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | Haruka | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Drop the bag in quietly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bag | det |
| 3 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drop | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 Drop | compound:prt |
| 5 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Drop | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop in | imperative | you not said here | the bag | quietly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
Option 2
Bring a sign with her name
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 name | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | a sign | with her name | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sign=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | her = she | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Give nothing at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Give | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Give | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | nothing | all | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Asset |
Option 4
Tell everyone how much it cost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | obj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 much | nsubj |
| 6 | cost | cost | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | much | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient much=Topic |
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