Test 10 · The only child: a quiet house

★★★ Nell blames Rab for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2. Mum says, «Rab and Tam can tidy half the messes each day.» In 2 days, how many messes do Rab and Tam tidy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Mum, Rab, many messes · What happens: blame, say, tidy, do, tam · To what, where: Rab, messes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 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: ★★★ Nell blames Rab for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blames	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
4	Nell	Nell	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blames	nsubj
5	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Rab	Rab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blames	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 messes	case
8	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 messes	nummod
9	messes	mess	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blames	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 messes	nmod:unmarked
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Tam	cc
13	Tam	tam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 2	case
15	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 Tam	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blames	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present	★	Rab				for 3 messes a day and Tam for 2	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rab=Theme for mess=Attribute

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: Mum says, «Rab and Tam can tidy half the messes each day.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tidy	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 tidy	punct
5	Rab	Rab	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tidy	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Tam	cc
7	Tam	Tam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rab	conj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tidy	aux
9	tidy	tidy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
10	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	12 messes	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 messes	det
12	messes	mess	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tidy	obj
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tidy	obl:unmarked
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tidy in a quote	can	Rab and Tam	half messes			day		tree rules

Sentence 3: In 2 days, how many messes do Rab and Tam tidy?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 messes	amod
7	messes	mess	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Rab	Rab	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Tam	cc
11	Tam	tam	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 do	conj
12	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Tam	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	many messes	Rab			day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rab=Eventuality
2	tam	infinitive	many messes not said here					tidy property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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