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Test 7 · Big brothers

«Finlay's being soft, lying on his brother's bed». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Finlay · What happens: be, lie · To what, where: bed

This is test 7 of lesson 501 «Big brothers» 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: «Finlay's being soft, lying on his brother's bed».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct
2	Finlay	Finlay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 soft	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lying	punct
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 soft	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 bed	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 brother	case
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Finlay					soft property	tree rules
2	lie in a quote	gerund	Finlay not said here			Finlay's brother's bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Big boys should never miss anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boys	amod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 miss	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 miss	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 miss	advmod
5	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 miss	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 miss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not miss	should	Big boys	anyone		all			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus

Option 2

He should forget about Torquil quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 Torquil	case
5	Torquil	Torquil	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forget	obl
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 forget	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	should	He					about Torquil; quickly property	tree rules

Option 3

He's trying to steal Torquil's bedroom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 steal	mark
5	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	Torquil	Torquil	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bedroom	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Torquil	case
8	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Torquil's bedroom					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bedroom=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Missing a brother who has left is natural

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	miss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 natural	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brother	det
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Missing	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 left	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 brother	acl:relcl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 natural	cop
8	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	gerund		a brother					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus
2	leave	present · perfect	a brother						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Missing					natural property	tree rules

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