Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Everyday / The only child: a quiet house / t1

Test 1 · The only child: a quiet house

«only kids are all spoilt brats lol». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: be · To what, where: spoilt brats

This is test 1 of lesson 498 «The only child: a quiet house» 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: «only kids are all spoilt brats lol».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 brats	punct
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 kids	advmod
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brats	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 brats	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	7 brats	advmod
6	spoilt	spoilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brats	amod
7	brats	brat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 brats	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 brats	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	kids	spoilt brats				all property	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's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	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

Only kids never have to do any chores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 kids	advmod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 chores	det
8	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	kids						tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	kids not said here	any chores					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, every only child is spoilt rotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 spoilt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 child	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 child	amod
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoilt	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spoilt	aux:pass
7	spoilt	spoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spoilt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spoil	present · passive		every only child				rotten property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's a stereotype; many do loads of chores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stereotype	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stereotype	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stereotype	det
4	stereotype	stereotype	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stereotype	parataxis
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 chores	case
10	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loads	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a stereotype					tree rules
2	do	present	many	loads of chores					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only kids get double pocket money by law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 kids	advmod
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 money	amod
5	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 money	compound
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 law	case
8	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	kids	double pocket money				by law	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/t1/