Test 6 · ★ · A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left…
In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to be saved. What's truer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be, wait, save · To what, where: cartoon
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 506 «A sibling with a disability or illness, a sibling who left home» 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: In a cartoon, the boy in the wheelchair is always sad and waiting to be saved.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sad | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sad | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wheelchair | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wheelchair | det |
| 9 | wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boy | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sad | cop |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 sad | advmod |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 waiting | cc |
| 14 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sad | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 saved | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saved | aux:pass |
| 17 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 waiting | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the boy in the wheelchair | a cartoon | always, sad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the boy in the wheelchair not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive · passive | the boy in the wheelchair not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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 truer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 truer | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 truer | cop |
| 3 | truer | true | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 truer | 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 · ✓ the right answer
His wheelchair is just how he gets about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wheelchair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gets | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 gets | advmod |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 gets | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gets | nsubj |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 gets | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | His wheelchair | about, get property | tree rules |
Option 2
Everyone in a wheelchair is badly ill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 ill | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 wheelchair | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wheelchair | det |
| 4 | wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everyone | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ill | cop |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ill | advmod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everyone | badly, ill property | tree rules |
Option 3
Wheelchair users always need saving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 users | compound |
| 2 | users | user | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | saving | saving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Wheelchair users | saving | always property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot saving=Theme |
Option 4
Wheelchair users can never have any fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 users | compound |
| 2 | users | user | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fun | det |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | can | Wheelchair users | any fun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
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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