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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.

nsubjccompnmod:possamodnsubjcoppunctrootMontyPROPNwondersVERBwhoPRONhisPRONrealADJfriendsNOUNareAUX.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MontyMontyPROPNNumber=Sing2 wondersnsubj
2wonderswonderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3whowhoPRONPronType=Int2 wondersccomp
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 friendsnmod:poss
5realrealADJDegree=Pos6 friendsamod
6friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur3 whonsubj
7arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 whocop
8..PUNCT_2 wonderspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wonder speech: askpresentMontyvn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2is apresentMonty's real friendstree 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?

copdetamodnsubjmarkaclcompound:prtpunctrootWhatPRON'sAUXaDETfairADJwayNOUNtoPARTfindVERBoutADP?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Introotroot
2'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Whatcop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 waydet
4fairfairADJDegree=Pos5 wayamod
5waywayNOUNNumber=Sing1 Whatnsubj
6totoPART_7 findmark
7findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf5 wayacl
8outoutADP_7 findcompound:prt
9??PUNCT_1 Whatpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresenta fair waytree rules
2find outto-infinitivea fair way not said herevn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Ban everyone from his house forever

compoundcasenmod:possnmodadvmodrootBanNOUNeveryonePRONfromADPhisPRONhouseNOUNforeverADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BanbanNOUNNumber=Sing2 everyonecompound
2everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Totrootroot
3fromfromADP_5 housecase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 housenmod:poss
5househouseNOUNNumber=Sing2 everyonenmod
6foreverforeverADV_2 everyoneadvmod

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

nsubjcopccompadvmodexplparataxisdetnsubjrootNoticeVERBwhoPRON'sAUXaroundADVwhenADVtherePRON'sVERBnoDETpoolNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NoticenoticeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2whowhoPRONPronType=Rel4 aroundnsubj
3'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 aroundcop
4aroundaroundADV_1 Noticeccomp
5whenwhenADVPronType=Int7 'sadvmod
6theretherePRONPronType=Dem7 'sexpl
7'sbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin1 Noticeparataxis
8nonoDETPronType=Neg9 pooldet
9poolpoolNOUNNumber=Sing7 'snsubj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1noticeimperativeyou not said herevn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2ispresentaround propertytree rules
3bepresentno pooltherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Pay his friends money to keep coming over every day

nmod:posscompoundobjmarkadvclxcompadvmoddetobl:unmarkedrootPayVERBhisPRONfriendsNOUNmoneyNOUNtoPARTkeepVERBcomingVERBoverADVeveryDETdayNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PaypayVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 moneynmod:poss
3friendsfriendNOUNNumber=Plur4 moneycompound
4moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing1 Payobj
5totoPART_6 keepmark
6keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Payadvcl
7comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger6 keepxcomp
8overoverADV_7 comingadvmod
9everyeveryDETPronType=Tot10 daydet
10daydayNOUNNumber=Sing7 comingobl:unmarked
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1payimperativeyou not said herehis friends moneyvn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
2keepto-infinitiveyou not said heretree rules
3come overgerundyou not said heredayover propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Build a second, even bigger pool

detobjpunctadvmodamodoblrootBuildVERBaDETsecondNOUN,PUNCTevenADVbiggerADJpoolNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BuildbuildVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 seconddet
3secondsecondNOUNNumber=Sing1 Buildobj
4,,PUNCT_7 poolpunct
5evenevenADV_6 biggeradvmod
6biggerbigADJDegree=Cmp7 poolamod
7poolpoolNOUNNumber=Sing1 Buildobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1buildimperativeyou not said herebigger poolsecondvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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