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Test 2 · ★★ · The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling

«my mum said they couldn't have more babies, is it cos of me?». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, they, it · What happens: say, not have, be · To what, where: more babies · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 499 «The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling» 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: «my mum said they couldn't have more babies, is it cos of me?».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 babies	amod
10	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 me	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 me	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 me	nsubj
14	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	16 me	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask in a quote	past	my mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not have in a quote	could	they	more babies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	it					cos my mum = mum	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you were a naughty baby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 baby	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 baby	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 baby	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 baby	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baby	amod
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	you	a naughty baby					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, kids stop babies coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	kids	babies					tree rules
2	come	gerund	kids not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only if you asked for a sibling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 asked	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 asked	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sibling	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sibling	det
7	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	you					for a sibling	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it isn't the child's fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 fault	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fault	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fault	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fault	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fault	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 child	case
9	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	it	the child's fault					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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