Test 5 · ★ · The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff
What would probably happen if Destiny kept borrowing Imani's AirPods without asking?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Destiny · What happens: happen, keep, borrow, ask · To what, where: AirPods
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 500 «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 kept | mark |
| 6 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | advcl |
| 8 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | Imani | Imani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 AirPods | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Imani | case |
| 11 | AirPods | AirPods | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 borrowing | obj |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 asking | mark |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 borrowing | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | probably property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | past | Destiny | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | borrow | gerund | Destiny not said here | Imani's AirPods | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airpods=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Destiny not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
More rows and less trust
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 rows | amod |
| 2 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trust | cc |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 trust | amod |
| 5 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
They would become best friends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | They | best friends | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
Mum would buy everyone AirPods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 buy | obj |
| 5 | AirPods | AirPods | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | would | Mum | AirPods | everyone | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Beneficiary airpods=Theme |
Option 4
Nothing; sisters never mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 sisters | compound |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 mind | advmod |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind | present | Nothing sisters | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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