Test 7 · ★ · Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult
«Granny died ages ago, Mam should be over it by now innit». What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Granny · What happens: die, be, innit · To what, where: Mam, it
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 497 «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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: «Granny died ages ago, Mam should be over it by now innit».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 2 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 died | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| 7 | Mam | Mam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 it | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 it | cop |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Mam | appos |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 innit | mark |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 innit | advmod |
| 14 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 died | advcl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 innit | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | past | Granny | Mam | ago property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | should | it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | innit in a quote | infinitive | Granny not said here | now | 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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Grief always ends in a week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 ends | advmod |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Grief | week | always property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Grief can last a long time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 last | aux |
| 3 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 last | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | can | Grief | time | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Crying means Mam is ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ill | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ill | cop |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 means | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Mam | ill property | tree rules |
Option 4
Grown-ups don't feel grief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feel | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 feel | advmod |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feel | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not feel | present · do-support | Grown ups | grief | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Theme |
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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