Test 5 · ★ · Comfortable families: enough, but not everything
«Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours». What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddox · What happens: have, be · To what, where: pool
This is test 5 · ★ 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: «Maddox has a pool so his family's better than ours».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | Maddox | Maddox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pool | det |
| 5 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 better | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 better | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 family | case |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 pool | acl:relcl |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 ours | case |
| 12 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 better | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Maddox | a pool | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient |
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's true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Ned's family must be poor without a pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ned | Ned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ned | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poor | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 poor | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 poor | cop |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 pool | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pool | det |
| 9 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poor | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Ned's family | without a pool; poor property | tree rules |
Option 2
Families with pools are better than others
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 better | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 pools | case |
| 3 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Families | nmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 better | cop |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 better | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Families with pools | than others; good property | tree rules |
Option 3
Maddox's family is bad for having a pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddox | Maddox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 family | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maddox | case |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bad | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bad | cop |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 having | mark |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bad | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pool | det |
| 9 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Maddox's family | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | Maddox's family not said here | a pool | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Having more money doesn't make a family better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 make | csubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 money | amod |
| 3 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | more money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | Having | a family | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset family=Product |
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