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Test 6 · ★★ · The only child: all the attention and wanting a sibling

«Celestine talks like a lawyer so she can't have fun». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Celestine · What happens: talk, not have, be · To what, where: fun

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: «Celestine talks like a lawyer so she can't have fun».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 talks	punct
2	Celestine	celestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talks	nsubj
3	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 lawyer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lawyer	det
6	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talks	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 have	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 have	advmod
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 talks	ccomp
12	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present	Celestine					like a lawyer	tree rules
2	not have in a quote	can	Celestine	fun					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient

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

Kids who talk like adults can never join a pillow fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 join	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 talk	nsubj
3	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Kids	acl:relcl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 talk	obl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 join	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 join	advmod
8	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fight	det
10	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fight	compound
11	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Kids					like adults	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not join	can	Kids	a pillow fight					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient

Option 2

Celestine should be told off for using big words at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Celestine	celestine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux:pass
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 told	compound:prt
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	7 using	mark
7	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 using	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	should · passive		Celestine					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	use	gerund		big words		all			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only children never go on sleepovers with other kids

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 go	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 sleepovers	case
6	sleepovers	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 kids	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kids	amod
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present	children			sleepovers		with other kids	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with kid=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Only children may talk grown-up and still need silly time

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 talk	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
4	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 talk	obl
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	conj
11	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	may	children						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow up	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	need	present	children not said here				still; time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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