Test 2 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone
Harvey: «no phones at dinner for u two, but I'm keeping mine». What will probably happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: keep, happen · To what, where: mine
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 495 «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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: Harvey: «no phones at dinner for u two, but I'm keeping mine».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvey | Harvey | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 phones | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 phones | punct |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 phones | det |
| 5 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Harvey | appos |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dinner | case |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 phones | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 u | case |
| 9 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dinner | nmod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 u | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 keeping | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 keeping | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keeping | aux |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 phones | acl |
| 16 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 keeping | obj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Harvey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present · progressive | I | mine | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme |
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 will probably happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | future | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Harvey gets a second phone as a reward
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvey | Harvey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 phone | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 phone | amod |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 reward | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reward | det |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Harvey | a second phone | as a reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer phone=Stimulus as reward=Attribute |
Option 2
Mum and Dad happily agree straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agree | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Dad | cc |
| 3 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | conj |
| 4 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 5 agree | advmod |
| 5 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 agree | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | present | Mum and Dad | away, happily property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Everyone stops using phones forever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stops | xcomp |
| 4 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 using | obj |
| 5 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 using | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Everyone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | use | gerund | Everyone not said here | phones | forever property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Mum and Dad say it's not fair, and it fails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Dad | cc |
| 3 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mum | conj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fair | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fair | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fair | advmod |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fails | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fails | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fails | nsubj |
| 12 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mum and Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | it | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fail | present | it | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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