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Test 7 · The only child: a quiet house

A cartoon shows an only child who never makes a friend all summer. What does Kwabena's holiday show instead?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, only child, Kwabena · What happens: show, not make, do · To what, where: only child, friend, holiday show

This is test 7 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: A cartoon shows an only child who never makes a friend all summer.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 makes	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 makes	advmod
9	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 child	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 summer	det
13	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 makes	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon		a only child				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	not make	present	a only child	a friend					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product

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 does Kwabena's holiday show instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Kwabena	Kwabena	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 show	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Kwabena	case
5	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	compound
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	2 does	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		Kwabena's holiday show				instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality
2	show		Kwabena						nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

Only children need their parents to find them friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parents	nmod:poss
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 need	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	obj
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	children	children's parents					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	children not said here	parents = parent					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme friend=Attribute

Option 2

Only children can't talk to kids from other countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 kids	case
7	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 countries	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 countries	amod
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	can	children			other countries		to kids	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to kid=Co-Agent

Option 3

Only children always prefer reading by the pool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prefer	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 prefer	advmod
4	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 prefer	xcomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 pool	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pool	det
8	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	children					always property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	read not said to happen	gerund	children not said here					by the pool	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only children often learn to make friends fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	children					often property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	children not said here	friends				fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

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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