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Test 9 · ★ · Twins and big families

«Faith cried over a dress, so dramatic». Why did it mean so much?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Faith, dress · What happens: cry, mean · To what, where: dress

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 503 «Twins and big families» 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: «Faith cried over a dress, so dramatic».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
2	Faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 dress	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dress	det
6	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dramatic	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 dramatic	advmod
9	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cried	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 dramatic	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	Faith			a dress			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over dress=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: Why did it mean so much?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 mean	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 mean	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past · do-support	dress						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Her aunt made her wear it to church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 aunt	nmod:poss
2	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wear	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 church	case
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Her aunt	her = she					tree rules
2	wear	infinitive	her = she not said here	it				to church	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

She hated the dress and was upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dress	det
4	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 upset	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 upset	cop
7	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hated	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	She	the dress					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dress=Stimulus
2	is	past	She not said here					upset property	tree rules

Option 3

She cries about every little thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cries	nsubj
2	cries	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 cries	advmod
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 thing	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	She	every little thing				about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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

In big families new things are rare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 families	case
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	amod
3	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rare	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rare	cop
7	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 families	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	new things	big families not said here				rare property	tree rules

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