Test 8 · ★★ · Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad
Leo-Ray burnt the toast and everyone laughed. What's the smartest move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo, everyone, smartest move · What happens: burnt, laugh, be · To what, where: toast
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Leo-Ray burnt the toast and everyone laughed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 burnt | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leo | punct |
| 3 | Ray | Ray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Leo | flat |
| 4 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 toast | det |
| 6 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burnt | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burnt | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burnt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past | Leo | the toast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 the smartest move?
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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | smartest | smart | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the smartest move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Storm off and phone his driver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Storm | storm | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Storm | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 phone | cc |
| 4 | phone | phone | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Storm | conj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 driver | nmod:poss |
| 6 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 phone | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm off | imperative | you not said here | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 2 | phone | infinitive | you not said here | his driver | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient |
Option 2
Never go to a sleepover again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sleepover | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sleepover | det |
| 5 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | imperative | you not said here | a sleepover | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleepover=Initial_Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Laugh too and ask to be shown how
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Laugh | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Laugh | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shown | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shown | aux:pass |
| 7 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 shown | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
Option 4
Say toast is for poor people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | toast | toast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 people | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Say | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | toast | for poor people | tree rules |
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