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Test 11 · The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad

«Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!» What does Grandma really mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, Grandma · What happens: do, breathe, mean · To what, where: chores

This is test 11 of lesson 512 «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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: «Back in my day we did chores before we breathed!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
2	Back	back	ADV	_	5 day	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 day	nmod:poss
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl:unmarked
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 did	nsubj
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 breathed	advcl
8	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 did	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 breathed	mark
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 breathed	nsubj
11	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 breathed	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 breathed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	we	chores			day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality
2	breathe in a quote	past	we						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What does Grandma really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Children used to do lots of chores early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 do	mark
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 chores	case
7	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lots	nmod
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Children						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do	to-infinitive	Children not said here	lots of chores				early property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Children never did any chores

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 chores	det
5	chores	chore	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	Children	any chores					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality

Option 3

Children used to hold their breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hold	mark
4	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breath	nmod:poss
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	Children						vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hold	to-infinitive	Children not said here	Children's breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

Option 4

She was born without breathing

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	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 breathing	mark
5	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 born	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		She					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	breathe	gerund							vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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