Test 2 · ★★ · Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad
Monty wonders who his real friends are. What's a fair way to find out?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Monty, real friends, fair way · What happens: wonder, be, find out · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 491 «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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: Monty wonders who his real friends are.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monty | Monty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wonders | nsubj |
| 2 | wonders | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 wonders | ccomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friends | amod |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 who | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | cop |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wonders | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | Monty | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Monty's real friends | 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: What's a fair way to find out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 find | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a fair way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | a fair way not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Ban everyone from his house forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 everyone | compound |
| 2 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 everyone | nmod |
| 6 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 everyone | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Notice who's around when there's no pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 around | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 around | cop |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 1 Notice | ccomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 's | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 's | expl |
| 7 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Notice | parataxis |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 pool | det |
| 9 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 's | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | imperative | you not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | around property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | present | no pool | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Pay his friends money to keep coming over every day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 money | compound |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pay | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pay | advcl |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | imperative | you not said here | his friends money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come over | gerund | you not said here | day | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Build a second, even bigger pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build | build | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 second | det |
| 3 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Build | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pool | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 bigger | advmod |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 pool | amod |
| 7 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Build | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | imperative | you not said here | bigger pool | second | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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