Test 4 · ★★★ · Cold parents: always on the phone
In a film, the kid fixes a cold dad by winning a big prize, and the dad cries with pride. What's more real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, dad · What happens: fix, win, cry, be · To what, where: cold dad, film, big prize
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: In a film, the kid fixes a cold dad by winning a big prize, and the dad cries with pride.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 film | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kid | det |
| 6 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixes | nsubj |
| 7 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dad | det |
| 9 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dad | amod |
| 10 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixes | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 winning | mark |
| 12 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 fixes | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prize | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prize | amod |
| 15 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 winning | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cries | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cries | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dad | det |
| 19 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cries | nsubj |
| 20 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fixes | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pride | case |
| 22 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cries | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | present | the kid | a cold dad | a film | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dad=Patient | |||
| 2 | win | gerund | the kid not said here | a big prize | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | the dad | with pride | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pride=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's more real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 real | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 real | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 real | amod |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Winning a prize always makes cold dads warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prize | det |
| 3 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Winning | obj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 makes | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dads | amod |
| 7 | dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | warm | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | gerund | a prize | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Winning | cold dads | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | warm | present | cold dads not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
Kids must win prizes so their dads love them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 win | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | aux |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 win | obj |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 8 love | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 love | nsubj |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 win | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 love | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | must | Kids | prizes | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | love | present | Kids's dads | Kids = kid | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
Option 3
Cold dads only care about trophies and cups
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dads | amod |
| 2 | dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 care | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 care | advmod |
| 4 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 trophies | case |
| 6 | trophies | trophy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 care | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cups | cc |
| 8 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trophies | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | Cold dads | about trophies and cups | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about trophy=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A distant parent's coldness usually isn't about prizes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 2 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parent | amod |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coldness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 parent | case |
| 5 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 prizes | advmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 prizes | cop |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 prizes | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 prizes | advmod |
| 10 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 coldness | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | prizes | about, usually property | tree rules |
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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